本书是根据《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》的课程设置而编写的。编者充分考虑到我国英语专业高年级学生的兴趣和爱好,简要介绍美国文学历史阶段的特点以及重要作家和作品。从著名作家的著名作品中选择影响大、流传广、并经过时间考验而脍炙人口的经典片段,引导学生从阅读原著入手,培养学生对文学作品的阅读、赏析能力,进而感受美国文学丰富的思想内涵,并在此基础上提高学生的人文素质。
本书共分七章。介绍了从殖民地时期的文学到战后的文学。每章由概述、作家简介、作品概要、原著选读、注释、赏析点评和思考题等部分构成。
- 前辅文
- Chapter 1:American Literature in the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
- Benjamin Franklin
- Philip Freneau
- Chapter 2:19th Century American Literature
- Washington Irving
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Henry David Thoreau
- Herman Melville
- Walt Whitman
- Chapter 3:Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature
- Mark Twain
- Henry James
- Theodore Dreiser
- Jack London
- Chapter 4:20th Century American Literature before World War II
- Robert Frost
- Ezra Pound
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- William Faulkner
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Steinbeck
- Chapter 5:20th Century African-American Literature
- William Edward Burghardt DuBois
- Langston Hughes
- Ralph Ellison
- James Baldwin
- Toni Morrison
- Alice Walker
- Chapter 6:20th Century American Drama
- Eugene O’neill
- Tennessee Williams
- Arthur Miller
- Chapter 7:Post-War American Literature
- Saul Bellow
- J. D. Salinger
- Jack Kerouac
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Joseph Heller
- John Updike
- Amy Luth Tan
- Works Cited