目录 PART I AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD(1607?1700) Historical IntroductionAmerican PuritanismEarly New England LiteratureJohn SmithJohn CottonRoger WilliamsAnne BradstreetEdward TaylorPART II AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF REASON AND REVOLUTION (1700?1800)Historical IntroductionEnlightenment and American RevolutionNeoclassicismBenjamin FranklinThomas PaineThomas JeffersonPhilip FreneauPART III AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1800?1865)Historical IntroductionLiterary Characteristics Romanticism American Romanticism American TranscendentalismWashington Irving His Life and Writing Career Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Short Stories Rip Van Winkle (1819) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow James Fenimore Cooper His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel The Pioneers (1823)William Cullen Bryant His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Poem Thanatopsis (1817, 1821)Edgar Allan Poe His Life and Writing Career Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Works The Raven (1845) The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)Ralph Waldo Emerson His Life and Writing Career Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Works Nature (1836) Self-Reliance (1837)Henry David Thoreau His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Work Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854)Nathaniel Hawthorne His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel The Scarlet Letter (1850)Herman Melville His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel Moby-Dick or The Whale 作者介绍 陈世丹,文学博士,中国人民大学教授,外国语学院外国文学学科方向学术带头人,英语系主任,英美文学、西方文论研究方向博士生导师、博士后合作导师。全国英国文学学会常务理事、全国美国文学研究会常务理事、国际文学伦理学批评研究会理事。完成和在研国家社会科学基金项目3项:“美国后现代主义小说主题与艺术手法论”(97CWW004)、“美国作家库尔特?冯内古特研究”(06BWW017)和“多克特罗小说艺术研究”(13BWW038)。在研中国人民大学重大规划项目1项“西方后现代主义小说总论”(16XNLG01)。出版学术专著9部,主编教材6部,发表国家核心期刊学术论文70多篇。 序言
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