【本书目录】 A Course Description of American LiteratureA Brief Introduction of American LiteraturePart One Colonial Period and Early American Literature(1620-1800)Chapter 1 The Planters and the Puritans Background Information 1.1 Captain John Smith From The Generall Historie Captain Smith Among the Indians 1.2 William Bradford From The Pilgrims Meet the Indians 1.3 Edward Taylor The Jov of Church Fellowship Righdy AttendedChapter2 The Founders ofthe Nation Background Information 2.1 Benjamin Franklin From The Whisfle A Receipt to Make a New England Funeral Elegy From The Way to Wealth 2.2 Thomas Paine From Common Sense 2.3 Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of IndependencePart Two The Romantic Period(1780-1860)Chapter 3 The New National Literature Background Information 3.1 Washington Irving The Devil and Tom Walker 3.2 James Fenimore Cooper An Overview of The Deerslayer From The Deerslayer 3.3 William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis To a Waterfowl 3.4 Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of the Red Death Annabel Lee To HelenChapter 4 The Transcendentalism Background Information Transcendentalism 4.1 Ralph Waldo Emerson From Self-Reliance The Rhodora 4.2 Henry David Thoreau An Overview ofWalden From Walden Where I Lived,and What I Lived for 4.3 Henry Wadsworth Long fellow The Arsenal at Springfield The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls Nature The Sound ofthe Sea 4.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Maypole of Merry Mount An Overview of The Scarlet Letter The Summary of Chapter 12 From The Scarlet Letter Chapter 12 The Minister's VigilPart Three The Aae of Realism(1860-1910)Chapter 5 The Codflict between North and South Background Information 5.1 Walt Whitman Young Grimes From Song of Myself Cavalry Crossing a Ford 5.2 Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address,March 4,1865 5.3 Emily Dickinson I Like to See It Lap the Miles I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose Because I Could Not Stop for Death 5.4 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe An Overview of Uncle Tom's Cabin The Summary of Chapter 12 From Uncle Tom's Cabin Chapter 12 Select Incident of Lawful TradeChapter 6 New American Outlooks Background Information 6.1 Mark Twain From life on the Mississippi The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County An Overview of Ihe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Summary of Chapter 31 From The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn Chapter 31 6.2 Henry James An Overview ofThe Portrait of a Lady The Sunanary of Chapter 7 From The Portrait of a Lady Chapter7 6.3 Stephen Crane A Mystery of Heroism 6.4 Theodore Dreiser An Overview of Sister Carrie A Summary of Chapter 47 From Sister Carrie Chapter 47. The Way of the Beaten—A Harp in the WindPart Four Modern 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 From Winesburg,Ohio Sophistication From Winesburg,Ohio Mother 7.3 Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay Fire and Ice To a Young Wretch Mending Wall 7.4 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald An Overview ofThe Great Gatsbv From The Great Gatsby Chapter 3 7.5 Ernest Hemingway In Another Country An Overview.ofA Farewell to Arms From A Farewell to Arms Chapter 36 7.6 Eugene O’Neill An Overview ofThe Hairy Ape From The Hairy Ape SCENE Ⅰ From The Hairy Ape SCENE Ⅱ From The Hairy Ape SCENE Ⅲ 7.7 John Ernst Steinbeck The Leader of the People An Overview ofThe Grapes of Wrath From The Grapes of Wra山Chapter 9 7.8 William.Faulkner The BearChapter 8 American Literature after WW Ⅱ Background Information The War Novelists The Southern Writers The Jewish Writers The Beat Generation and the Beat Writers The Black Humor/Black Humorist The Black Writers The Feminist Writers 8.1 Saul BeHow An Overview ofThe Adventures of Augie March From The Adventures of Augie March Chapter 21 8.2 Norman Mailer From“The White Negro”2 From“The White Negro”4 An Overview ofThe Armies of the Night From The Armies of the Night Part 6—A Transfer of Power 8.3 J.D.Salinger An Overview ofThe Catcher in the Rye From The Catcher in The Rye Chapter 22 From The Catcher in the Rye Chapter 24 8.4 Joseph Heller An Overview of Catch-22 From Catch-22 Chapter 40 From Catch-22 Chapter 42 8.5 The Black WIiters Background Information Langston Hughes Negro Speaks of Rivers Richard Wright From Black Boy James Baldmn An Overview of Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone From TeU Me How Long the Train's Been Gone 8.6 The Southera Writers Background Information Robert Penn Warren Infant Boy at Midcentury Truman Capote From In Cold Blood Flannery O'Connor An Overview of A Good Man is Hard to Find From 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 Sylvia Plath Words Daddv Alice Walker Everyday Use For Your GrandmamaAppendix Ⅰ A Chronology of American Literature and LifeAppendix Ⅱ Literary TermsAppendix Ⅲ Suggested Answers to the QuestionsAppendix Ⅳ TestsAppendix Ⅴ 试卷参考答案Appendix Ⅳ Bibliography