美国文学基础教程

《美国文学基础教程》旨在引导英语专业本科生及广大英语爱好者全面系统地掌握美国文学的基础知识，了解美国文学简史以及各阶段的代表作家和代表作品，提高英语语言文化素养。 本书依照时间顺序将美国文学分成五个时期：殖民主义与革命战争时期、浪漫主义时期、现实主义时期、现代主义时期与战后时期。全书用英文撰写，在作家介绍与作品选读方面，本书力图选取各个时期拥有代表性的作家和作品；在历史背景介绍、作家生平简介、作品赏析等部分尽量采用精简的语言，以便读者更容易掌握美国文学的入门基础。 本书可作为高校英语专业本科生的教材或参考书，亦可作为学习英语的课外读物，同时对备考英语专业研究生入学考试、英语专业八级考试，以及中小学英语教师招考等测试具有较高的参考价值。

王育烽，男，福建晋江人，厦门理工学院外国语学院副教授，英语系主任，上海外国语大学英语语言文学博士，福建省作家协会会员。主要从事英美文学教学与研究工作。迄今独立出版专著2部，合著1部，参编教材2部，在国内外学术期刊上发表论文30余篇。曾获省级和市级优秀社科成果奖各1项。

Chapter One The Colonial and the Revolutionary Period
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
The Wild Honeysuckle
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Autobiography (excerpt)
Chapter Two The Romantic Period
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle (excerpt)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
To a Waterfowl
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
The Last of the Mohicans (excerpt)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Annabel Lee
The Raven
The Cask of Amontillado
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nature (excerpt)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walden (excerpt)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter (excerpt)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick (excerpt)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A Psalm of Life
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Song of Myself (excerpt)
O Captain! My Captain
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
I'm Nobody
I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died
Chapter Three The Realistic Period
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (excerpt)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Daisy Miller (excerpt)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
A Man Said to the Universe
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Sister Carrie (excerpt)
Jack London (1876-1916)
The Call of the Wild (excerpt)
O. Henry (1862-1910)
The Cop and the Anthem
Chapter Four The Modernist Period
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Waste Land (excerpt)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Great Gatsby (excerpt)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
The Old Man and the Sea (excerpt)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The Sound and the Fury (excerpt)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro
William Carols Williams (1883-1963)
The Red Wheelbarrow
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
The Hairy Ape (excerpt)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Dreams
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt)
Chapter Five The Post-war Period
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Howl (excerpt)
Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
Catch-22 (excerpt)
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
Lolita (excerpt)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
Slaughterhouse Five (excerpt)
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
The Catcher in the Rye (excerpt)
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
The Adventures of Augie March (excerpt)
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