美国文学史及作品选读

本教程将美国文学按历史发展的阶段分成四个部分，diyi部分：殖民地和建国时期文学；第二部分浪漫主义时期文学；第三部分现实主义时期文学；第四部分现代主义文学。每个部分又将该时期较为集中的不同特色和风格作家及他们的作品分成两个章节，本书共八个章节，分别介绍了39位美国著名的文学家，以及他们的优秀作品，涉及到了各个不同历史时期的文学流派，以及主要作家，及其代表作品。

1988.6: 毕业于兰州大学外语系，获文学学士学位。 1991.6: 获兰州大学文学硕士学位，主修英美文学翻译。 1991.6―1999.10: 兰州大学外国语学院英语系任教。 1997.7―1998.7:加拿大多伦多大学英语系访问学者，主修加拿大文学（国家留学基金1996年度资助）。 1999.10迄今: 西安交通大学英语系任教。 2009．8―2010．8： 美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校访问学者，研修美国文学（国家留学基金2008年度青年骨干项目资助）。近年讲授的主要课程英语本科生：“美国文学史选读”、“圣经与西方文化”、“比较文学与作品赏析”英语研究生：“美国小说”和“圣经与英语文学”通识类选修课：“英美文学” 研究领域北美文学，文学翻译，圣经与英语文学，美国华裔文学

part i
from the beginning to the revolution
(1492-1783)
chapter 1 american colonialism
historical background
american indians
listen! rain approaches
calling ones own
the northern puritans
william bradford(1590 -1657)
of plymouth ntation
anne bradstreet(1612 -1672)
to my dear and loving husband
upon the burning of our house
jonathan edwards(1703 -1758)
sinners in the hands of an angry
the southern colonists
john smith(1580 -1631)
a description of new england
william byrd(1674 -1744)
a progress to the mines
chapter 2 american revolution and enlightenment
historical background
american enlightenment
thomas paine(1737 -1809)
mon sense
thomas jefferson(1743 - 1826)
the declaration of independence
benjamin franklin(1706 -1790)
the autobiography of benjamin franklin
part ⅱ
from the revolution to the civil war
(1783-1861)
chapter 3 american romanticism and transcendentalism
historical background
american romanticism and transcendentalism
washington irving(1783 -1859)
rip van winkle
william cullen bryant(1794 -1878)
thanatois
to a waterfowl
edgar allan poe(1809 - 1849)
to helan
the raven
ralph waldo emerson(1803 -1882)
nature
the american scholar
nathaniel hawthorne(1804 -1864)
the scarlet letter
henry wadsworth longfellow(1807 - 1882)
a alm of life
the tide rises,the tide falls
walt whitman(1819 -1892)
song of myself
i hear america singing
harriet beecher stowe(1811 - 1896)
uncle toms cabin
frederick douglass(1817 - 1895)
narrative of the life of frederick douglass
emily dickinson(1830-1886)
success is counted sweetest
i died for beauty - but was scarce
tell all the truth but tell it slant
the brain - is wider than the sky
because i could not stop for death
the soul selects her own society
elysium is as far as to
“nature” is what we see
part ⅲ
from the civil war to world war i
(1861-1914)
chapter 4 american realism and naturalism
historical background
american realism
mark twain(1835 -1910)
life on the mississippi
the adventures of huckleberry finn
henry james(1843 -1916)
daisy miller
william dean howells(1837 -1920)
editha
kate chopin(1850-1904)
the story of an hour
edwin arlington robinson(1869 -1935)
richard cory
miniver cheevy
eros turannos
american naturalism
stephen crane(1871 -1900)
the red badge of courage
theodore dreiser(1871 - 1945)
sister carrie
jack london(1876 -1916)
the law of life
part ⅳ
from world war i to world war iⅱ
(1914-1945)
chapter 5 american modernism
historical background
american modernism
ezra pound(1885 -1972)
in a station of the metro
a pact
the river-merchants wife: a letter
t. s. eliot(1888 -1965)
the love song of j. alfred prufrock
robert frost(1874 -1963)
stopping by woods on a snowy evening
men wall
the road not taken
nothing gold can stay
fire and ice
sherwood anderson(1876 -1941)
winesburg, ohio
ernest hemingway(1899 - 1961)
a farewell to arms
f. scott fitzgerald(1896 - 1940)
the great gatsby
john steinbeck(1902 -1968)
the grapes of wrath
william faulkner(1897 - 1962)
dry september
eugene oneill (1888 - 1953)
long days journey into night
part v
american literature since world war ⅱ
(1945
chapter 6 american contemporary literature
historical background
american t-modernism
joseph heller(1923 - 1999)
catch-22
saul bellow(1915 -2005)
saul bellows nobel lecture
flannery oconnor(1925 -1964)
a good man is hard to find
allen gins