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Lecture 1 Washington Irving(1783—1859) 1

1．Background questions 1

2．Selected reading 1

Text:An excerpt from Rip Van Winkle 1

3．Assigned reading 11

Lecture 2 Edgar Allan Poe(1809—1849) 40

1．Background questions 40

2．Selected reading 40

Text:The Raven 40

3．Assigned reading 45

Lecture 3 Nathanial Hawthorne(1804—1864) 64

1．Background questions 64

2．Selected reading 64

Text:Young Goodman Brown 64

3．Assigned reading 78

Lecture 4 Walt Whitman(1819—1892) 87

1．Background questions 87

2．Selected readings 87

Text A:I Hear America Singing 87

Text B:There Was a Child Went Forth 88

Text C:Excerpts from“Song of Myself” 90

3．Assigned readings 93

Lecture 5 Emily Dickinson(1830—1886) 98

1．Background questions 98

2．Selected readings 98

Text A:Wild Nights—Wild Nights 98

Text B:This Is My Letter to the World 99

Text C:I Died for Beauty—but Was Scarce 99

Text D:I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died— 100

Text E:Because I Could Not Stop for Death— 101

Text F:A Narrow Fellow in the Grass 102

3．Assigned readings 103

Lecture 6 Mark Twain(1835—1910) 108

1．Background questions 108

2．Selected reading 108

Text:The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 108

3．Assigned reading 115

Lecture 7 O.Henry(1862—1910) 121

1．Background questions 121

2．Selected reading 121

Text:The Gift of the Magi 121

3．Assigned reading 127

Lecture 8 Sherwood Anderson(1876—1941) 134

1．Background questions 134

2．Selected reading 134

Text:“The Egg”from The Triumph of the Egg 134

3．Assigned reading 145

Lecture 9 Stephen Crane(1871—1900) 152

1．Background questions 152

2．Selected reading 152

Text:The Open Boat 152

3．Assigned reading 164

Lecture 10 Theodore Dreiser(1871—1945) 176

1．Background questions 176

2．Selected reading 176

Text:Chapter 26 from Sister Carrie 176

3．Assigned reading 189

Lecture 11 Francis Scott Fitzgerald(1896—1940) 204

1．Background questions 204

2．Selected reading 204

Text:Chapter 3 from The Great Gatsby 204

3．Assigned reading 222

Lecture 12 Ernest Hemingway(1899—1961) 250

1．Background questions 250

2．Selected readings 250

Text A:Cat in the Rain 250

Text B:Chapter 41 from A Farewell to Arms 254

3．Assigned reading 273

Lecture 13 William Faulkner(1897—1962) 279

1．Background questions 279

2．Selected reading 279

Text:A Rose for Emily 279

3．Assigned reading 290

Lecture 14 T.S.Eliot(1888—1965) 304

1．Background questions 304

2．Selected readings 304

Text A:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”from Prufrock and Other Observations 304

Text B:“Preludes”from Prufrock and Other Observations 311

3．Assigned reading 313

Lecture 15 Robert Frost(1874—1963) 318

1．Background questions 318

2．Selected readings 318

Text A:Mending Wall 318

Text B:Fire and Ice 320

Text C:Birch 321

Text D:Nothing Gold Can Stay 323

3．Assigned reading 324

Lecture 16 Eugene O'Neill(1888—1953) 326

1．Background questions 326

2．Selected reading 326

Text:Act Four from Long Day's Journey into Night 326

3．Assigned reading 366