内容简介
本书既有对美国文学发展历史的宏观叙述，又有对具体作品的细致分析，内容丰富，观点新颖，评价中肯，见解独到，文笔流畅，是一部让人难以释手的文学史著作，更是一本英语专业师生不可或缺的好教材。
目录
PART Ⅰ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLonIAL PERIOD
(1607—1700)......001
Historical Introduction
American Puritanism
Early New England Literature
John Smith
John Cotton
Roger Williams
Anne Bradstreet
Edward Taylor
PART Ⅱ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF REASON AND
REVOLUTION (1700—1800)
Historical Introduction
Enlightenment and American Revolution
Neoclassicism
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Philip Freneau
PART Ⅲ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1800—1865)
Historical Introduction
Literary Characteristics
Romanticism
Washington Irving
His Life and Writing Career
Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Short Stories
James Fenimore Cooper
His Life and Writing Career
Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel
William Cullen Bryant
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PART Ⅳ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE REALISTIC PERIOD
(1865—1900)
Historical Introduction
Realism
Naturalism
Psychological Realism
PART Ⅴ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE MODERN PERIOD (1900—1945)
Historical Introduction
The Development of Literature
Modernism
Terms of Modernist Literature
Ezra Pound
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
T. S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Eugene O’Neill
Arthur Miller
PART Ⅵ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE POSTMODERN PERIOD (1945— )
Historical Introduction
Postmodernism
Postmodernist Fiction
metafiction
Terms of Postmodernist Literature
Robert Lowell
Charles Olson
Joseph Heller
Kurt Vonnegut
John Barth
Donald Barthelme
Thomas Pynchon
Vladimir Nabokov
Toni Morrison