Contents
Part I The Origin and Development of American Literature (Beginnings to 1860)
Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
The Autobiography (excerpt)
Unit 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
The American Scholar (excerpt)
Unit 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
Young Goodman Brown
Unit 4 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
The Tell-Tale Heart
Unit 5 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
Where I Lived， and What I Lived For
Unit 6 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (excerpt)
Unit 7 Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Bartleby， the Scrivener
Unit 8 19th Century American Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) / A Psalm of Life
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) / Annabel Lee
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) / Song of Myself (excerpt)
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) / Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Part II American Literature Between the Civil War and the FirstWorld War(1860–1914)
Unit 9 Mark Twain (1835–1910)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Unit 10 Henry James (1843–1916)
The Real Thing
Unit 11 Kate Chopin (1851–1904)
A Respectable Woman
Unit 12 Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945)
Sister Carrie (excerpt)
Unit 13 Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)
The Jungle (excerpt)
Part III American Literature Between the Two World Wars (1914–1945)
Unit 14 Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953)
Desire Under the Elms (excerpt)
Unit 15 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
Sweat
Unit 16 F． Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
The Great Gatsby (excerpt)
Unit 17 William Faulkner (1897–1962)
A Rose for Emily
Unit 18 Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
Soldier’s Home
Unit 19 John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt)
Unit 20 20th Century American Poets (I)
Robert Frost (1874–1963) / The Road Not Taken
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) / Chicago
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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