《美国文学教程》旨在引导教师和学生全面系统地了解和研究美国文学的发展历程，探究美国社会思潮以及文化脉络，学习和理解各个时期的作家及其作品，提高文学修养，增添文学兴趣，提高英语语言能力、理解能力和欣赏水平。 本教程将美国文学按历史发展的阶段分成四个部分：殖民地和建国时期文学；浪漫主义时期文学；现实主义时期文学；现代主义文学。本教程共八个章节，集中介绍了43位美国著名的文学家和他们的优秀作品。全书以英文为主。每个章节均有历史背景介绍、作家生平简介、代表作品选读、选篇注释和赏析思考题。并附录有：美国文学编年表、文学术语阐述、思考题参考答案和四套综合练习题集。 本教程最大的特色是：现代主义时期的文学所占篇幅较大，涉及的作家和作品较多；附录材料较丰富，尤其是编写的综合练习题集，便于教师和学生检测学习效果；赏析思考题有针对性；教材适应面宽，可以作为高等学校英语专业本科生的教材及参考书，研究生辅助读本，亦可作为非英语专业的大学生的文学课外读物以及广大文学爱好者的赏析读本。为了便于教师课堂教学和学生自主学习，我们还将该教程电子课件制作成了光盘。

A Course Description of American Literature
A Brief Introduction of American Literature
Part One Colonial Period and Early American Literature(1620-1800)


Chapter 1 The Planters and the Puritans
Background Information
1.1 Captain John Smith
From The Generall Historie
Captain Smith Among the Indians
1.2 William Bradford
From The Pilgrims Meet the Indians
1.3 Edward Taylor
The Jov of Church Fellowship Righdy Attended


Chapter2 The Founders ofthe Nation
Background Information
2.1 Benjamin Franklin
From The Whisfle
A Receipt to Make a New England Funeral Elegy
From The Way to Wealth
2.2 Thomas Paine
From Common Sense
2.3 Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
Part Two The Romantic Period(1780-1860)


Chapter 3 The New National Literature
Background Information
3.1 Washington Irving
The Devil and Tom Walker
3.2 James Fenimore Cooper
An Overview of The Deerslayer
From The Deerslayer
3.3 William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
3.4 Edgar Allan Poe
The Masque of the Red Death
Annabel Lee
To Helen


Chapter 4 The Transcendentalism
Background Information
Transcendentalism
4.1 Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Self-Reliance
The Rhodora
4.2 Henry David Thoreau
An Overview ofWalden
From Walden
Where I Lived，and What I Lived for
4.3 Henry Wadsworth Long fellow
The Arsenal at Springfield
The Tide Rises，the Tide Falls
Nature
The Sound ofthe Sea
4.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Maypole of Merry Mount
An Overview of The Scarlet Letter
The Summary of Chapter 12
From The Scarlet Letter Chapter 12
The Minister's Vigil
Part Three The Aae of Realism(1860-1910)


Chapter 5 The Codflict between North and South
Background Information
5.1 Walt Whitman
Young Grimes
From Song of Myself
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
5.2 Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address，March 4，1865
5.3 Emily Dickinson
I Like to See It Lap the Miles
I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
5.4 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
An Overview of Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Summary of Chapter 12
From Uncle Tom's Cabin Chapter 12
Select Incident of Lawful Trade


Chapter 6 New American Outlooks
Background Information
6.1 Mark Twain
From life on the Mississippi
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
An Overview of Ihe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Summary of Chapter 31
From The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn Chapter 31
6.2 Henry James
An Overview ofThe Portrait of a Lady
The Sunanary of Chapter 7
From The Portrait of a Lady Chapter7
6.3 Stephen Crane
A Mystery of Heroism
6.4 Theodore Dreiser
An Overview of Sister Carrie
A Summary of Chapter 47
From Sister Carrie Chapter 47.
The Way of the Beaten-A Harp in the Wind
Part Four Modern American Literature(1910- )


Chapter 7 American Literature after WW Ⅰ
Background Information
7.1 Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife：A Letter
A Pact
7.2 Sherwood Anderson
From Winesburg，Ohio
Sophistication
From Winesburg，Ohio
Mother
7.3 Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Fire and Ice
To a Young Wretch
Mending Wall
7.4 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
An Overview ofThe Great Gatsbv
From The Great Gatsby Chapter 3
7.5 Ernest Hemingway
In Another Country
An Overview.ofA Farewell to Arms
From A Farewell to Arms Chapter 36
7.6 Eugene O'Neill
An Overview ofThe Hairy Ape
From The Hairy Ape SCENE Ⅰ
From The Hairy Ape SCENE Ⅱ
From The Hairy Ape SCENE Ⅲ
7.7 John Ernst Steinbeck
The Leader of the People
An Overview ofThe Grapes of Wrath
From The Grapes of Wra山Chapter 9
7.8 William.Faulkner
The Bear


Chapter 8 American Literature after WW Ⅱ
Background Information
The War Novelists
The Southern Writers
The Jewish Writers
The Beat Generation and the Beat Writers
The Black Humor/Black Humorist
The Black Writers
The Feminist Writers
8.1 Saul BeHow
An Overview ofThe Adventures of Augie March
From The Adventures of Augie March Chapter 21
8.2 Norman Mailer
From“The White Negro”2
From“The White Negro”4
An Overview ofThe Armies of the Night
From The Armies of the Night
Part 6-A Transfer of Power
8.3 J.D.Salinger
An Overview ofThe Catcher in the Rye
From The Catcher in The Rye Chapter 22
From The Catcher in the Rye Chapter 24
8.4 Joseph Heller
An Overview of Catch-22
From Catch-22 Chapter 40
From Catch-22 Chapter 42
8.5 The Black WIiters
Background Information
Langston Hughes
Negro Speaks of Rivers
Richard Wright
From Black Boy
James Baldmn
An Overview of Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
From TeU Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
8.6 The Southera Writers
Background Information
Robert Penn Warren
Infant Boy at Midcentury
Truman Capote
From In Cold Blood
Flannery O'Connor
An Overview of A Good Man is Hard to Find
From A Good Man Is Hard to Find
8.7 The Jewish Writers
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gimpel the Fool
The Son from America
8.8 The Feminist Writers
Sylvia Plath
Words
Daddv
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
For Your Grandmama
Appendix Ⅰ A Chronology of American Literature and Life
Appendix Ⅱ Literary Terms
Appendix Ⅲ Suggested Answers to the Questions
Appendix Ⅳ Tests
Appendix Ⅴ 试卷参考答案
Appendix Ⅳ Bibliography