v. 1. Academic novels-The essay in America
v. 2. William Faulkner -Mina Loy
v. 3. Norman Mailer-Sentimental literature
v. 4. Anne Sexton-Writing as a woman in the twentieth century.

Volume 1 : Academic novels
Adams, Henry
Agee, James
Aiken, Conrad
Albee, Edward
Alcott, Louisa May
Alger, Horatio
Algonquin Round Table
Algren, Nelson
Alvarez, Julia
Ammons, A.R.
Anderson, Sherwood
Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
Angelou, Maya
Ashbery, John
Asian American literature
Auden, W.H.
Autobiography : general essay
Autobiography : slave narratives
Autobiography : white women during the Civil War
Baldwin, James
Banks, Russell
Barnes, Djuana
Barth, John
Barthelme, Donald
Beat Movement, The
Beattie, Ann
Bellow, Saul
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Berry, Wendell
Berryman, John
Bierce, Ambrose
Bishop, Elizabeth
Black Arts Movement
Black Mountain poetry
Bradstreet, Anne
Brodkey, Harold
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Buck, Pearl S.
Bukowski, Charles
Burroughs, William S.
Capote, Truman
Carruth, Hayden
Carver, Raymond
Cather, Willa
Cheever, John
Chesnutt, Charles W.
Chicago Renaissance
Children's literature
Chopin, Kate
Collins, Billy
Colonial writing in America
Confessional poetry
Cooper, James Fenimore
Crane, Hart
Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage
Creeley, Robert
Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de Cummings, E.E.
Dana, Richard Henry
DeLillo, Don
Detective fiction
Dickey, James
Dickinson, Emily
Didion, Joan
Dillard, Annie
Doctorow, E.L.
Dos Passos, John
Douglass, Frederick
Dreiser, Theodore
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Edwards, Jonathan
Eliot, T.S.
T.S. Eliot's Four quartets
T.S. Eliot's The waste land
Elkin, Stanley
Ellison, Ralph
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Erdrich, Louise
Essay in American, The.

Volume 2 : Faulkner, William
William Faulkner's As I lay dying
William Faulkner's The sound and the fury
Fireside poets, The
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the night
Ford, Richard
Franklin, Benjamin
Freneau, Philip
Frost, Robert
Fugitives and southern agrarianism, The
Gardner, John
Garland, Hamlin
Gay literature : poetry and prose
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper"
Ginsberg, Allen
Gioia, Dana
Glasgow, Ellen
Glück, Louise
Gunn, Thom
Hacker, Marilyn
Alex Haley's The autobiography of Malcolm X
Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun
Hapgood, Hutchins
Harlem Renaissance
Harte, Bret
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter
Hayden, Robert
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Hecht, Anthony
Heller, Joseph
Hellman, Lillian
Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises
Henry, O.
Hoagland, Edward
Howard, Richard
Howells, William Dean
Hughes, Langston
Hugo, Richard
Hurston, Zora Neale
Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God
Imagism and American poets
Irving, John
Irving, Washington
Italian-American literature
Jackson, Laura Riding
Shirley Jackson's "The lottery"
James, Henry
Henry James's The Ambassadors
Henry James's The portrait of a lady
Jarrell, Randall
Jeffers, Robinson
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Jewish-American fiction
Jong, Erica
Jordan, June
Justice, Donald
Kazin, Alfred
Kees, Weldon
Kennedy, William
Kerouac, Jack
Jack Kerouac's On the road
Kincaid, Jamaica
King, Stephen
KIngston, Maxine Hong
Kinnell, Galway
John Knowles's A separate peace
Kunitz, Stanley
Kushner, Tony
Lardner, Ring
Latino/Latina fiction in America
Lazarus, Emma
Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird
Levertov, Denise
Levine, Philip
Lewis, Sinclair
Lindsay, Vachel
Literary theory in America
Little magazines
London, Jack
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Long poem, The
Lopez, Barry
Lowell, Amy
Lowell, Robert
Loy, Mina.

Volume 3 : Mailer, Norman
Malamud, Bernard
Mamet, David
David Mamet's American buffalo
Masters, Edgar Lee
Mather, Cotton
Matthews, William
Mathiessen, Peter
McCarthy, Cormac
McCarthy, Mary
McClatchy, J.D.
McCullers, Carson
Carson McCullers's The ballad of the sad café
McNally, Terrence
McPhee, John
Melville, Herman
Herman Melville's "Bartleby the scrivener"
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Mencken, H.L.
Merrill, James
Merwin, W.S.
Metafiction
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Miller, Arthur
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman
Miller, Henry
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind
Momaday, N. Scott
Moore, Marianne
Morrison, Toni
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Nabokov, Vladimir
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
Native American literature
Naturalism and realism
Nature writing : poetry
Nature writing : prose
Naylor, Gloria
New critics, The
New formalism, The
New journalism, The
New York School of Poets
Norris, Frank
Oates, Joyce Carol
Objectivism (Reznikoff, Zukofsky, Oppen)
O'Brien, Tim
Time O'Brien's The things they carried
O'Connor, Flannery
O'Hara, John
Olds, Sharon
O'Neill, Eugene
Eugene O'Neill's Long day's journey into night
Ostriker, Alicia
Ozick, Cynthia
Paley, Grace
Parker, Dorothy
Pinsky, Robert
Plath, Sylvia
Sylvia Plath's The bell jar
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poetress in American literature, The
Ponsot, Marie
Popular fiction
Porter, Katherine Anne
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound's The pisan cantos
Proletarian literature
Prose, Francine
Proulx, Annie
Puritanism : the sense of an unending
Pynchon, Thomas
Ransom, John Crowe
Reed, Ishmael
Rich, Adrienne
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Roethke, Theodore
Romanticism in America : the Emersonian tradition
Roth, Henry
Roth, Philip
Rukeyser, Muriel
Salinger, J.D.
J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye
Sandburg, Carl
Schwartz, Delmore
Science fiction
Sentimental literature.

Volume 4 : Sexton, Anne
Shepard, Sam
Short story in America, The
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Simic, Charles
Simms, William Gilmore, and Antebellum Southern literature
Sinclair, Upton, and the Muckrakers
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Smith, Dave
Snyder, Gary
Soto, Gary
Stafford, Jean
Stafford, William
Stegner, Wallace
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath
Stern, Gerald
Stevens, Wallace
Wallace Stevens's Notes toward a supreme fiction
Stevenson, Anne
Stone, Robert
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strand, Mark
Styron, William
Swenson, May
Tarkington, Booth
Tate, Allen
Tate, James
Taylor, Edward
Taylor, Peter
Theater in America
Thoreau, Henry David
Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Thurber, James
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Transcendentalism
Trilling, Lionel
Twain, Mark
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Updike, John
Very, Jones
Vidal, Gore
Vietnam in poetry and prose
Vonnegut, Kurt
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
Walcott, Derek
Walker, Alice
War literature
Warren, Robert Penn
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's men
Welty, Eudore
West, Nathanael
West Coast School
Western fiction : Grey, Stenger, McMurty, McCarthy
Wharton, Edith
Edith Wharton's The age of innocence
Wheatley, Phillis
White, E.B.
White, Edmund
Whitman, Walt
Walt Whitman's Song of myself
Wideman, John Edgar
Wilbur, Richard
Wilder, Thornton
Thornton Wilder's Our town
Williams, Tennessee
Tennessee William's The glass menagerie
Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire
Williams, Terry Tempest
Williams, William Carlos
William Carlos Williams's Paterson
Wilson, August
Wilson, Edmund
Wolfe, Thomas
Wolff, Tobias
Wright, Charles
Wright, James
Wright, Richard
Richard Wright's Native son
Writing as a woman in the twentieth century.