美國(guó)文學(xué)簡(jiǎn)介

Foreword and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Colonial America:A New Land/A New Literature:Bradford,Bradstreet,Edwards
Chapter 2 The Revolutionary Period:An Emergent National Literature
Chapter 3 Early National Period:Irving,Bryant,Cooper
Chapter 4 A National Literature and Romantic Individualism
Chapter 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864):Consummate Romantic
Chapter 6 Mid-Century Poets Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Chapter 7 Nature and the Individual:The Transcendentalism of Emerson (1803-82)and Thoreau (1817-62)
Chapter 8 The Anti-Slavery Impulse:Stowe,Douglass,Lowell,Whittier
Chapter 9 Herman Melville (1819-1891) Master of Philosophical Allegory
Chapter 10 An Experiment in Form:Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Chapter 11 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886):The Recluse of Amherst
Chapter 12 From Civil War to New Century:Industrialism and the Rise of Literary Realism :Introductions to Howells,O Henry
Chapter 13 Mark Twain(1835-1910):The Man,The Humorist,The Social Critic,The Pessimist
Chapter 14 Psychological Realism :Henry James (1843 1916)
Chapter 15 Inner Conflict: Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Chapter 16 At the Turn of the Century:Muckraking and Reform,Naturalism
Chapter 17 Two Naturalists:Jack London and (1876-1916) Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Chapter 18 Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945):Naturalism and Moral Crisis in the Twentieth Century
Selected Bibliography
Index of Literary Works Used