The Norton anthology of American literature
(Book)

v. 1. Beginnings to 1865. Beginnings to 1820. Introduction ; Timeline ; Native American oral literature ; Christopher Columbus ; John Smith ; William Bradford ; John Winthrop ; Roger Williams ; Anne Bradstreet ; Mary Rowlandson ; Edward Taylor ; Cotton Mather ; Jonathan Edwards ; Benjamin Franklin ; Samson Occom ; Ethnographic and naturalist writings ; J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ; Thomas Paine ; Thomas Jefferson ; The Federalist ; Olaudah Equiano ; Judith Sargent Murray ; Philip Freneau ; Phillis Wheatley ; Charles Brockden Brown ; Native American eloquence : negotiation and resistance

American literature 1820-1865. Introduction ; Timeline ; Washington Irving ; James Fenimore Cooper ; William Cullen Bryant ; William Apess ; Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Native Americans : removal and resistance ; Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; John Greenleaf Whittier ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Abraham Lincoln ; Margaret Fuller ; Slavery, race, and the making of American literature ; Harriet Beecher Stowe ; Harriet Jacobs ; Henry David Thoreau ; Frederick Douglass ; Walt Whitman ; Herman Melville ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ; Emily Dickinson ; Rebecca Harding Davis ; Louisa May Alcott.

v. 2. 1865 to the present. American literature 1865-1914. Introduction ; Timeline ; Walt Whitman ; Emily Dickinson ; Mark Twain (Samule L. Clemens) ; Bret Harte ; William Dean Howells ; Ambrose Bierce ; Henry James ; Emma Lazarus ; Sarah Orne Jewett ; Kate Chopin ; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ; Booker T. Washington ; Charles W. Chesnutt ; Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; Edith Wharton ; Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) ; W.E.B. Du Bois ; Realism and naturalism ; Theodore Dreiser ; Stephen Crane ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Jack London ; Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)

American literature 1914-1945. Introduction ; Timeline ; Edwin Arlington Robinson ; Willa Cather ; Amy Lowell ; Gertrude Stein ; Robert Frost ; Susan Glaspell ; Sherwood Anderson ; Carl Sandburg ; Wallace Stevens ; William Carlos Williams ; Ezra Pound ; Modernist manifestos ; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) ; Marianne Moore ; T.S. Eliot ; Eugene O'Neill ; Claude McKay ; Katherine Anne Porter ; Zora Neale Hurston ; E.E. Cummings ; Jean Toomer ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; William Faulkner ; Hart Crane ; Ernest Hemingway ; Langston Hughes ; John Steinbeck ; Countee Cullen ; Richard Wright

American literature since 1945. Introduction ; Timeline ; Theodore Roethke ; Eudora Welty ; Elizabeth Bishop ; Tennessee Williams ; John Cheever ; Robert Hayden ; Randall Jarrell ; John Berryman ; Ralph Ellison ; Arthur Miller ; Robert Lowell ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Patricia Highsmith ; Jack Kerouac ; Denise Levertov ; James Baldwin ; Flannery O'Connor ; Allen Ginsberg ; John Ashbery ; Anne Sexton ; Adrienne Rich ; Toni Morrison ; Sylvia Plath ; John Updike ; Philip Roth ; Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) ; Audre Lorde ; Lucille Clifton ; Don DeLillo ; Thomas Pynchon ; Raymond Carver ; Maxine Hong Kingston ; Billy Collins ; Gloria Anzaldúa ; Alice Walker ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Leslie Marmon Silko ; Art Spiegelman ; Joy Harjo ; Rita Dove ; Sandra Cisneros ; Louise Erdrich ; Li-young Lee ; Creative nonfiction ; George Saunders ; Sherman Alexie ; Natasha Trethewey ; Jhumpa Lahire ; Junot Díaz.