美国文学教程

Preface

Chapter I The Colonial Period and 17th Century Literature of Puritanism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature



Chapter II The Period of Enlightenment

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Benjamin Franklin

from Autobiography

Philip Freneau

To the Memory of the Brave Americans

The Wild Honey Suckle



Chapter III New England Transcendentalism and the Romantic Age

A． Period of Pre-Romanticism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Washington Irving

from Rip Van Winkle．

William Cullen Bryant

Thanatopsis

To a Waterfowl

B． Period of Post-Romanticism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Edgar Allan Poe

To Helen

The Raven

Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Nature

The Rhodora： on being asked， whence is the flower?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from The Scarlte Letter

Walt Whitman

from Song of Myself．

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Psalm of Life

The Tide Rises， the Tide Falls

Harriet Beecher Stowe

from Uncle Tom's Cabin

Emily Dickinson

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Chapter IV The Age of Realism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Mark Twain

from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Henry James

from The Art of Fiction



Chapter V American Naturalism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory

Miniver Cheevy

Stephen Crane

from The Red Badge of Courage

Theodore Dreiser

from Sister Carrie

Robert Lee Frost

Mending Wall

The Road Not Taken

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening



Chapter VI American Modernism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Ernest Hemingway

from A Farewell to Arms

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

from The Great Gatsby

John Steinbeck

from The Grapes of Wrath

T． S． Eliot

from The Waste Land

William Faulkner

Dry September

Eugene O'Neill

from Long Day's Journey Into Night



Chapter VII American Literature since 1945

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Saul Bellow

from Seize the Day

Joseph Heller

from Catch-22

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Allen Ginsberg

from Howl

Alice Walker

Everyday Use

Main Reference Books