Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. COLONIAL LITERATURE.
By the late Moses Coit Tyler, LL.D., Professor of American History in Cornell University. Abridged by the Editor.
Chapter I. First Period (1607–1676)
Chapter II. Second Period (1676–1765)
Chapter III. General Literary Forces in the Colonial Time
Part II. THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.
By the late Moses Coit Tyler. Abridged by the Editor.
Chapter I. A General View
Chapter II. The Principal Writers
Part III. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Chapter I. The Historians
By Isaac Madison Bentley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology in Cornell University
Chapter II. The Novelists
By Clark Sutherland Northup, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the English Language and Literature in Cornell University.
Chapter III. The Poets
By Lane Cooper, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the English Language and Literature in Cornell University.
Chapter IV. The Essayists and the Humorists
By Elmer James Bailey, A.M., Instructor in English in Cornell University.
Chapter V. The Orators and the Divines
By Lane Cooper.
Chapter VI. The Scientists
By Clark Sutherland Northup.
Chapter VII. The Periodicals
By Clark Sutherland Northup.
List of American Authors in the Tauchnitz Edition
Index.