美国文学史

PART Ⅰ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD

(1607—1700)......001

Historical Introduction

American Puritanism

Early New England Literature

John Smith

John Cotton

Roger Williams

Anne Bradstreet

Edward Taylor

PART Ⅱ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF REASON AND

REVOLUTION (1700—1800)

Historical Introduction

Enlightenment and American Revolution

Neoclassicism

Benjamin Franklin

PART Ⅰ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD

(1607—1700)......001

Historical Introduction

American Puritanism

Early New England Literature

John Smith

John Cotton

Roger Williams

Anne Bradstreet

Edward Taylor

PART Ⅱ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF REASON AND

REVOLUTION (1700—1800)

Historical Introduction

Enlightenment and American Revolution

Neoclassicism

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Paine

Thomas Jefferson

Philip Freneau

PART Ⅲ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1800—1865)

Historical Introduction

Literary Characteristics

Romanticism

Washington Irving

His Life and Writing Career

Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Short Stories

James Fenimore Cooper

His Life and Writing Career

Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel

William Cullen Bryant

Edgar Allan Poe

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

PART Ⅳ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE REALISTIC PERIOD

(1865—1900)

Historical Introduction

Realism

Naturalism

Psychological Realism

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

Historical Introduction

The Development of Literature

Modernism

Terms of Modernist Literature

Ezra Pound

Robert Frost

Wallace Stevens

T. S. Eliot

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Eugene O’Neill

Arthur Miller

PART Ⅵ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE POSTMODERN PERIOD (1945— )

Historical Introduction

Postmodernism

Postmodernist Fiction

Metafiction

Terms of Postmodernist Literature

Robert Lowell

Charles Olson

Joseph Heller

Kurt Vonnegut

John Barth

Donald Barthelme

Thomas Pynchon

Vladimir Nabokov

Toni Morrison

　　本书既有对美国文学发展历史的宏观叙述，又有对具体作品的细致分析，内容丰富，观点新颖，评价中肯，见解独到，文笔流畅，是一部让人难以释手的文学史著作，更是一本英语专业师生不可或缺的好教材。