美国文学发展简史及作品选读 英文版PDF电子书下载

PREFACE 1

CHAPTER ONE THE LITERATURE OF AMERICAN NATIONALIST 1

Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790 3

from THE WAY TO WEALTH 4

from THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6

Thomas Paine (1737—1809) 9

from COMMON SENSE 11

Philip Freneau (1752—1832) 13

TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE AMERICANS 15

THE WILD HONEY SUCKLE 17

CHAPTER TWO THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM 18

Ⅰ The Beginnings of Romance 18

Washington Irving (1783—1859 20

from RIP VAN WINKLE 22

James Fenimore Cooper (1789—1851) 27

from THE DEERSLAYER (Excerpt from Chapter Ⅰ) 28

Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849) 42

from THE PURLOINED LETTER 44

Ⅱ Romanticism on Puritan Soil (The American Renaissance) 54

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1830—1882) 57

from THE AMERICAN SGHOLAR 59

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) 66

from THE BIRTHMARK 69

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) 74

A PSALM OF LIFE 76

THE CROSS OF SNOW 79

Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862) 79

from CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 81

Herman Melville (1819—1891) 86

from MOBY DICK (Chapter 84) 89

CHAPTER THREE THE AGE OF REALISM 96

Ⅰ Romantic and Realist 96

Wall Whitman (1819—1892) 99

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! 102

from SONG OF MYSELF 103

Emily Dickinson (1830—1886) 104

POEM 107

Mark Twain (1835—1910) 109

from THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Chapter 31) 113

Henry James (1843—1916) 123

from DAISY MILLER (Excerpt from Part Two) 126

Ⅱ The Naturalistic Revolt or Social Revolt 138

Stephen Crane (1871—1900) 141

from THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE: An Episode of the American Civil War (Chapter Ⅹ Ⅷ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅳ) 143

Theodore Dreiser (1871—1945) 152

from SISTER CARRIE (Chapter Ⅰ) 155

Jack London (1876—1916) 161

from MARTIN EDEN (Chapter Ⅹ Ⅶ) 163

CHAPTER FOUR 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE 171

Ⅰ The Revival of Poetry 176

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869—1935) 179

RICHARD CORY 180

MINIVER CHEEVY 181

Robert Frost (1874—1963) 182

STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING 184

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN 185

THE PASTURE 185

Carl Sandburg (1878—1967) 186

GRASS 187

THE PEOPLE, YES 188

Ⅱ The American Theater 191

Eugene O Neill (1888—1953) 192

from DYNAMO (Act Two) 195

Ⅰ Contemporary Writers 218

Katherine Anne Porter (1890—1980) 218

THEFT 220

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940) 227

from THE GREAT GATSBY (Excerpt from Chapter Ⅲ) 230

Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961) 238

A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED PLACE 241

William Faulkner (1897—1962) 245

THAT EVENING SUN 248

Langston Hughes (1902—1967) 266

THE WEARY BLUES 267

THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS 268

WHO IS SIMPLE? 269

John Steinback (1902—1968) 271

from THE GRAPES OF WRATH (Chapter 15) 273

Saul Bellow (1915—) 279

from HERZOG (Chapter One) 280

REFERENCES 296