21世纪新编美国文学选读

PART Ⅰ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

(1800—1865)

Romanticism: A Historical Introduction

Literary Characteristics

Romanticism

American Romanticism

American Transcendentalism

Unit 1 Washington Irving

Unit 2 James Fenimore Cooper

Unit 3 William Cullen Bryant

Unit 4 Edgar Allan Poe

Unit 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unit 6 Henry David Thoreau

Unit 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Unit 8 Herman Melville

Unit 9 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

PART Ⅰ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

(1800—1865)

Romanticism: A Historical Introduction

Literary Characteristics

Romanticism

American Romanticism

American Transcendentalism

Unit 1 Washington Irving

Unit 2 James Fenimore Cooper

Unit 3 William Cullen Bryant

Unit 4 Edgar Allan Poe

Unit 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unit 6 Henry David Thoreau

Unit 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Unit 8 Herman Melville

Unit 9 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

PART Ⅱ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE REALISTIC PERIOD

(1865—1900)

Realism and Naturalism: A Historical Introduction

Realism

Psychological Realism

Naturalism

Unit 10 Walt Whitman

Unit 11 Emily Dickinson

Unit 12 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unit 13 Mark Twain

Unit 14 Henry James

Unit 15 Edith Wharton

Unit 16 Jack London

Unit 17 Theodore Dreiser

Unit 18 Willa Cather

PART Ⅲ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE MODERN PERIOD (1900—1945)

Modernism: A Historical Introduction

The Development of Literature

Modernism

Terms of Modernist Literature

Bibliography

Unit 1 Ezra Pound

Unit 2 Robert Frost

Unit 3 Wallace Stevens

Unit 4 T. S. Eliot

Unit 5 F. Scott Fitzgerald

Unit 6 Ernest Hemingway

Unit 7 William Faulkner

Unit 8 Eugene O’Neill

Unit 9 Arthur Miller

PART Ⅳ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE POSTMODERN PERIOD (1945–)

Postmodernism: A Historical Introduction

Postmodernism

Postmodernist Fiction

Metafiction

Terms of Postmodernist Literature

Bibliography

Unit 10 Robert Lowell

Unit 11 Charles Olson

Unit 12 Joseph Heller

Unit 13 Kurt Vonnegut

Unit14 John Barth

Unit15 Donald Barthelme

Unit 16 Thomas Pynchon

Unit 17 Vladimir Nabokov

Unit 18 Tony Morrison

《21世纪新编美国文学选读》是与《美国文学史》配套使用的高校英语专业本科美国文学课程教学用书。本书每一册设18个单元。每一单元由三部分构成：1）代表作家传记（Biography）；2）代表作品短评（Comments）；3）作品选读（Selected
Readings）。为了配合课上的讨论，作品选读带有注释（Notes）和讨论题（Questions）。

　　《21世纪新编美国文学选读》是与《美国文学史》配套使用的高校英语专业本科美国文学课程教学用书。本书每一册设18个单元。每一单元由三部分构成：1）代表作家传记（Biography）；2）代表作品短评（Comments）；3）作品选读（Selected
Readings）。为了配合课上的讨论，作品选读带有注释（Notes）和讨论题（Questions）。