Dějiny americké literatury od počátků až po osmdesátá léta. Chronologická tabulka podle jednotlivých liter. žánrů. Slovníček pojmů z oblasti teorie literatury.
1 Colonial Beginnings // 2 The Birth of a Nation // 3 The Rise of a National Literature // 4 An American Renaissance // 5 The Boston Brahmins // 6 The Civil War and the "Gilded // Age” // 7 The Era of Realism and Naturalism // 8 At the Turn of the Century // 9 The Turning Point of American Literature // 10 Poetry from 1900 through the 1930s // 11 The Writers of the "Lost Generation" // 12 The Thirties // 13 The Forties and Fifties // 14 The Sixties and Seventies // 15 The Twentieth-Century Black Writer // 16 Drama // 17 Popular Fiction // Glossary of literary terms // Table of historical and literary events // Index