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 The Gencrall Historic 1.2 Edward Taylor The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended Chapter 2 The Founders of the Nation Background Information 2.1 Benjamin Franklin The Whistle A Receipt to Make a New England Funeral Elegy The Way to Wealth 2.2 Thomas Paine Common Sense Part Two The Romantic Period(1780—1860) Chapter 3 The New National Literature Background Information 3.1 Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle 3.2 James Fenimore Cooper The Deerslayer 3.3 Edgar Allan Poe The Tell—Tale Heart Annabel Lee To Helen Chapter 4 The Transcendentalism Background Information Transcendentalism 4.1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Self—Reliance 4.2 Henry David Thoreau Walden 4.3 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arsenal at Springfield The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Nature The Sound of the Sea 4.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Part Three The Age of Realism (1860—1910) Chapter 5 The Conflict between North and South Background Information 5.1 Walt Whitman Song of Myself Cavalry Crossing a Ford 5.2 Emily Dickinson I Like to See It Lap the Miles I‘m Nobody! Who are You? Because I Could Not Stop for Death 5.3 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom‘s Cabin Chapter 6 New American Outlooks Background Information 6.1 Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 6.2 Henry James The Portrait of a Lady 6.3 Stephen Crane A Mystery of Heroism 6.4 Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie Part Four Modem 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 Wineurg, Ohio 7.3 Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay Fire and Ice Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Mending Wall 7.4 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald The Great Gaty 7.5 Ernest Hemingway In Another Country A Farewell to Arms 7.6 Eugene O‘Neill The Hairy Ape 7.7 John Ernst Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 7.8 William Faulkner A Rose for Emily Chapter 8 American Literature after WW Ⅱ Background Information 8.1 Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March 8.2 Norman Mailer The White Negro The Armies of the Night 8.3 .Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 8.4 Joseph Heller Catch—22 8.5 The Black Writers Background Information Langston Hughes Negro Speaks of Rivers Richard Wright Black Boy James Baldwin Tell Me How Long the Train‘s Been Gone 8.6 The Southern Writers Background Information Robert Penn Warren Infant Boy at Midcentury Truman Capote In Cold Blood Flannery O‘Connor 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 Gloria Steinem My Life on the Road Sylvia Plath Mirror 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 Suggested Answers to the Test Appendix Ⅵ Bibliography 作者介绍 刘晖,语言学硕士,毕业于华中师范大学英语系,湖北第二师范学院外语系副教授,研究方向为英语语言教学,主讲课程:高级英语,基础英语,影视文化赏析等。 序言
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