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American Literature An Introduction to American Literary History and Authors Synopsis Shang Xiaojin Table of Contents Spring Semester Lecture One: Early American and Colonial Period to 1776 Lecture Two: The Age of Reason and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820 Lecture Three: Philip Freneau and the Rise of Romanticism Lecture Four: Early Romantic Poetry (Bryant and Longfellow) Lecture Five: Early Romantic Fiction (Washington Irving) Lecture Six: Early Romantic Fiction (James F. Cooper)) Lecture Seven: Transcendentalism (Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau) Lecture Eight: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter Lecture Nine: Herman Melville and Moby Dick Lecture Ten: Edgar Allan Poe and the Fall of the House of Usher Fall Semester Lecture one: Romantic poets (Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman) Lecture Two: The Rise of Realism in America (Howells and Stow) Lecture Three: Mark Twain and Henry James Lecture Four: Naturalism and Naturalistic Writers (Jack London) Lecture Five: Naturalism and Naturalistic Writers (Theodore Dresier) Lecture Six: The Emergence of Modernist Literature (Modern Poetry) Lecture Seven: Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Lecture Eight: Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald Lecture Nine: William Faulkner and Southern Tradition Lecture Ten: John Steinbeck and the 1930s Lecture One: Early American and Colonial Period to 1776 I. Native American Oral Tradition American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures. There was no written literature among the more than 500 different Indian languages and tribal cultures that existed in North America before the first Europeans arrived. Though these tribal cultures spoke as many as more than 350 languages, no Indian tribe had a written language until Sequoyah invented a syllabary for an Indian tribe in 1821. Accordingly, there was no written literature among these divergent tribal cultures until late 18th century. Native cultures were s