Introduction 1. The Youngest National Literature 1781 (Independence War) - 2012= about 200 years2. Great achievement: 1930-1980, nine American writers won the Nobel PrizeThe Periods of American Literature1.The colonial period (约1607 - 1765)2. The period of enlightenment and Independence War (1765-1800)3. The romantic period (1800 - 1865)4. The realistic period (1865 - 1914)5. The period of modernism (1914 - 1945)6. The Contemporary Literature (1945 -)Chapter I Colonia
