美国文学史

本书是一部在新的社会文化历史语境下编写的供英语专业高年级本科生或研究生使用的教材，也是一部文学研究者的参考书。

 

Chapter 1 Early American Literature (1620--1810)
1.Introduction
2.The Literature of Colonial Period (1620--1700)
2.1 Introduction
2.2 John Smith, William Bradford and John Winthrop
2.2.1 John Srhith (1580--1631)
2.2.2 William Bradford (159~)--1657)
2.2.3 John Winthrop (1588--1649)
2.3 John Cotton, "Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams
2.3.1 John Cotton (1585--1652)
2.3.2 Thomas Hooker (1586--1647)
2.3.3 Roger Williams (1606--1683)
2.4 Anne Bradstreet, MiChael Wigglesworth and Edward Taylor
2.4.1 Anne Bradstreet (1613--1672)
2.4.2 Michael Wigglesworth (1631--1705)
2.4.3 Edward Taylor (1642--1729)
3.The Literature of Enlightemvent and Revolution (1700--1810)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790)
3.3 Thomas Paine (1737--1809)
3.4 Thomas Jefferson (1743--1826)
3.5 Philip Freneau (1752--1832)

Chapter 2 American Romanticism (1810--1865)
1.Introduction
2.Fiction
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Washington Irving (1783--1859)
2.3 James Fennimore Cooper (1789--1851)
2.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)
2.5 Herman Melville (1819--1891)
3.Non-fiction Prose
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)
3.3 Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)
4.Poetry
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)
4.3 Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
4.4 Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)

Chapter 3 American Realism and Naturalism (1865--1914)
1.Introduction
2.Realism
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811--1896)
2.3 William Dean Howells (1837--1920)
2.4 Henry James (1843--1916)
2.5 Mark Twain (1835"--1910)
2.6 O.Henry (1862--1910)
3.Naturalism
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Stephen Crane (1871--1900)
3.3 Frank Norris (1870--t902)
3.4 Theodore Dreiser (1871--1945)
3.5 Jack London (1876--1916)

Chapter 4 Literature Between Two World Wars (1914--1945)
1.Introduction
2.Realistic Fiction
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Sherwood Anderson (1876--1941)
2.3 John Steinbeck (1902--1968)
2.4 John Dos Passos (1896--1970)
3.Lost Generation Literature
3.1 Introduction
3.2 F.S.Fitzgerald (1896--1940)
3.3 Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961)
4.Southern Literature
4.1 Introduction
4.2 William Faulkner (1897--1962)
4.3 Katherine Anne Porter (1890--1980)
4.4 Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)
4.5 Carson McCullers (1917--1967)
4.6 Eudora Welty(1909--2001)
4.7 Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964)
5.Modern Poetry
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Ezra Pound (1885--1972)
5.3 Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)
5.4 William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)
5.5 The Fugitive GrOup
5.6 Robert Frost (1874--1963)
5.7 Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)
6.African, American Literature
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Zora Neale Hurston (1891--1960)
6.3 Langston Hughes (1902--1967)
6.4, Sterling A, Brown (1901--1989)
6.5 Richard Wright (1908--1960)
7.The Rise of Modern American Drama
7.1 The Rise of Modern American Drama
7.2 Eugene O'Neill (1888--1953)

Chapter 5 American Literature Since 1945
1.Introduction
2.Postmodern Fiction
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Black Humor Literature
2.2.1 Introduction
2.2.2 Joseph Heller (1923--1999)
2.2.3 Kurt Vonnegut (1922--2007)
2.2.4 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1937-- )
2.3 Metafiction
2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 John Barth (1930-- )
2.3.3 Donald Barthelme (1931--19.89)
2.4 Postmodern Realism
2.4.1 Introduction
2.4.2 Magical Realistic Writers
2.4.3 Raymond Carver (1938--1988)
2.4.4 Joyce Carol Oates (1938-- )
2.5 Avant-Pop Literature
2.5.1 Introduction
2.5.2 Don DeLillo (1936-- )
3.Realistic Fiction
3.1 Introduction
3.2 J.D.Salinger (1919--2010)
3.3 John Updike (1932--2009)
4.Postmodern Poetry
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Allen Ginsberg (192-6--1997)
4.3 Charles Olson (1910--1970)
4.4 Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)
4.5 Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)
4.6 Charles Bernstein (1950-- )
4.7 Anne Waldman (1945-- )
5.Jewish American Literature
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Saul Bellow (1915--2005)
5.3 Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904--1991)
5.4 Bernard Malamud (1914--1986)
5.5 Philip Roth (1933--)
6.African American Literature
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Ralph Ellison (1914--1994)
6.3 Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000)
6, 4 Amiri Baraka (1934-- )
6.5 Toni Morrison (1931-- )
6.6 Alice Walker (1944-- )
7.Native American Literature
7.1 Introduction
7.2 N.Scott Momaday (1934-- )
7.3 Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-- )
8.Chinese American Literature
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-- )
8.3 Amy Tan (1952-- )
8.4 Frank Chin (1940-- )
9.New Development in American Theatre
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Tennessee Williams (1911--1983)
9.3 Arthur Miller (1915--2005)
9.4 Edward Albee (1928-- )