美国文学简介PDF电子书下载

CONTENTS 1

Foreword and Acknowledgments Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Colonial America：A New Land/A New Literature：Bradford，Bradstreet，Edwards 5

Chapter 2 The Revolutionary Period：An Emergent National Literature 19

Chapter 3 Early National Period：Irving，Bryant，Cooper 38

Chapter 4 A National Literature and Romantic Individualism 68

Chapter 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne（1804—1864）：Consummate Romantic 75

Chapter 6 M id-Century Poets：Edgar Allan Poe （1809—1849）and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow（1807—1882） 92

Chapter 7 Nature and the Individual：The Transcendentalism of Emerson （1803—82）and Thoreau（1817—62） 122

Chapter 8 T he Anti-Slavery Impulse：Stowe，Douglass，Lowell，Whittier 143

Chapter 9 Herman Melville（1819—1891）：Master of Philosophical Allegory 149

Chapter 10 An Experiment in Form：Walt Whitman（1819—1892） 174

Chapter 11 Emily Dickinson（1830—1886）：The Recluse of Amherst 192

Chapter 12 From Civil War to New Century： Industrialism and the Rise of 204

Literary Realism：Introductions to Howells，O．Henry 204

Chapter 13 Mark Twain（1835—1910）：The Man，The Humorist，T he Social Critie，The Pessimist 220

Chapter 14 Psychological Realism：Henry James（1843—1916） 276

Chapter 15 Inner Conflict：Edith Wharton（1862—1937） 304

Chapter 16 At the Turn of the Century：Muckraking and Reform，Naturalism 324

Chapter 17 Two Naturalists：Jack London and（1876—1916）Stephen Crane（1871—1900） 332

Chapter 18 Theodore Dreiser（1871—1945）：Naturalism and M oral Crisis in the Twentieth Century 358

Selected Bibliography 376

Index of Literary Works Used 379