《美国文学简读教程》共4章,每章以美国文学史各阶段为主线,精选了美国文学中公认的经典作品作为选读材料,每篇选读都配有对该选读材料的简单介绍、文学评论、难点注释及针对该选读材料进行的提问。每个章节前还附有该文学历史阶段的纲要、文学术语、作家、作品及重要作品的简单扼要的评价。
《美国文学简读教程》的读者对象为英语专业高年级学生,同时也可供非英语专业高年级学生辅修英美文学课程使用。

“高等学校英语专业系列教材”是北京交通大学外语系联合全国近二十所高校的英语专业的同行共同倾力编写的一套供英语专业本科生使用的教材。《美国文学简读教程》是该系列教材之一,是《英国文学简读教程》的姊妹篇,也是北京交通大学科技基金资助项目(2007xM071)。本书的读者对象为英语专业高年级学生,同时也可供非英语专业高年级英美文学辅修课程使用。本书还可作为报考英语专业英美文学方向的硕士生入学考试的参考教材使用。本书精选了美国文学中公认的经典作品作为选读材料,每篇选读材料都配有简单的介绍和文学评论、难点注释和针对该选读材料进行的提问。每个章节前还附有该文学历史阶段的纲要、文学术语、作家、代表作品及对重要作品简单扼要的评价。本书在参考国内几乎所有的英美文学教材的基础上,同时根据参编兄弟院校的特点精心编写而成。在选读作品的筛选上,编者们尽其所能在浩如烟海的美国文学中采撷*引人注目的浪花奉献给读者。
本书的编写者都是英美文学专业的教授、副教授和博士。他们都有多年的文学授课的经历。该书在此前一直作为自编讲义使用,很受学生欢迎。
由于编者水平所限,错误和不当之处望广大同仁和学生批评指正。

Chapter I The Literature of Early and Revolutionary Periods
I. An Outline of the Literature of This Period
II. Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac (Excerpt)
III. Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
IV. Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey Suckle

Chapter 2 The Literature of Romanticism
I. An Outline of the Literature of This Period
II. William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
III. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature (Excerpt)
Self-Reliance (Excerpt)
IV. Henry David Thoreau
Walden (Excerpt)
V. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (Excerpt)
Young Goodman Brown
VI. Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven (Excerpt)
To Helen
Annabel Lee
VII. Herman Melville
Moby-Dick (Excerpt)
VIII. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
IX. Walt Whitman
Inscriptions
Song of Myself (Excerpt)
O Captain! My Captain
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
X. Emily Dickinson
Success
There's a Certain Slant of Light
I'm Nobody! Who Are you?
A Bird Came down the Walk
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes
Much Madness Is Divine Sense
I Died for Beauty--But Was Scarce
I Like to See It Lap the Miles
I Dwell in Possibility
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
I Never Saw a Moor
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant
There Is No Frigate like a Book
A Route of Evanescence
To Make a Prairie It Takes a Clove and One Bee

Chapter 3 The Age of Realism and Naturalism
I. An Outline of the Literature of This Period
II. Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Excerpt)
III. Henry lames
Daisy Miller (Excerpt)
IV. lack London
The Law of Life
V. Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie (Excerpt)
VI. Kate Chopin
The Awakening (Excerpt)
The Story of an Hour
VII. O. Henry
The Last Leaf
The Cop and the Anthem
VIII. Stephen Crane
The Open Boat

Chapter 4 The Modem Period
I. An Outline of the Literature of This Period
II. Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
A Pact
III. Robert Frost
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
Fire and Ice
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Acceptance
Design
Nothing Gold Can Stay
IV. Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman (Excerpt)
V. Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man (Excerpt)
VI. Iohn Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (Excerpt)
VII. Eugene O'Neill
The Hairy Ape (Excerpt)
VIII. William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
IX. Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
X. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby (Excerpt)
XI. Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio (Excerpt)
XII. Joseph Heller
Catch-22 (Excerpt)
References
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