美国文学作品选读

Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism

Introduction to the Background

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Minister-s Black Veil

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Walt Whitman

Selected Poems

Emily Dickinson

Selected Poems

Chapter Two American Realism

Introduction to the Background

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Henry James

Daisy Miller

Chapter Three American Naturalism

Introduction to the Background

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Robert Frost

Selected Poems

Chapter Four American Modernism

Introduction to the Background

Ezra Pound

In a Station of the Metro

Selected Poems

William Carlos Williams

The Red Wheelbarrow

T.S.E.liot

The Waste Land

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner

That Ecening Sun

Ernest Hemingway

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

John Steinbeck

EugeneO'Neill

The Graene O'Neill

Long Day's Journey into Night

Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945

Introduction to the Background

Ralph Ellison

Selected Reading

Invisible Man

About the Author

Saul Bellow

Selected Reading

Herzog

Key

References

《21世纪英语专业系列教程：美国文学作品选读（第2版）》按美国文学史的五个发展阶段简略介绍了美国文学发展的时代背景以及每一个发展时期最重要的作家的生平、代表作及写作风格。
该书精选了18世纪末至20世纪80年代美国22位作家的名篇。这些作品从不同角度反映了美国社会不同时期的某些侧面；作品种类包括长、短篇小说、诗歌、散文、戏剧等。该书借助西方文论精心设计了讨论题，以开拓学生思路。书后所附答案可供学生自学时参考。该书可供教学时数为40课时的文学课使用，也可用作大学英语研究生和本科生辅修课教材或文学爱好者的读物。