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PART Ⅰ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD(1800—1865) 1

Romanticism:A Historical Introduction 1

Literary Characteristics 5

Romanticism 11

American Romanticism 12

American Transcendentalism 13

Unit 1 Washington Irving 14

Biography 14

Rip Van Winkle(1819) 16

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow(1820) 23

Unit 2 James Fenimore Cooper 28

Biography 28

The Pioneers(1823) 29

Unit 3 William Cullen Bryant 38

Biography 38

Thanatopsis(1821) 39

To a Waterfowl(1821) 43

Unit 4 Edgar Allan Poe 46

Biography 46

The Raven(1845) 48

The Fall of the House of Usher(1839) 53

Unit 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson 58

Biography 58

Nature(1836) 60

Self-Reliance(1837) 63

Unit 6 Henry David Thoreau 69

Biography 69

Walden,or Life in the Woods(1854) 71

Unit 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne 79

Biography 79

The Scarlet Letter(1850) 80

Unit 8 Herman Melville 88

Biography 88

Moby-Dick;or,The Whale(1851) 90

Unit 9 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 100

Biography 100

A Psalm of Life(1838) 102

My Lost Youth(1855) 105

The Song of Hiawatha(1855) 108

PART Ⅱ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE REALISTIC PERIOD(1865—1900) 117

Realism and Naturalism:A Historical Introduction 117

Realism 119

Psychological Realism 122

Naturalism 124

Unit 10 Walt Whitman 126

Biography 126

Song of Myself(1855) 128

Beat!Beat!Drums!(1865) 131

I Sit and Look Out（?） 134

Unit 11 Emily Dickinson 136

Biography 136

I felt a Funeral in my brain(1896) 137

I died for Beauty—but was scarce(1890） 139

I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—(1896) 141

Because I could not stop for Death—(1890) 144

Unit 12 Harriet Beecher Stowe 146

Biography 146

Uncle Tom's Cabin(1852) 147

Unit 13 Mark Twain 160

Biography 160

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884) 162

Unit 14 HenryJames 171

Biography 171

The Portrait ofa Lady(1881) 172

Unit 15 Edith Wharton 181

Biography 181

The Age of Innocence(1920) 182

Unit 16 Jack London 192

Biography 192

The Sea-Wolf(1904) 193

Martin Eden(1909） 197

Unit 17 Theodore Dreiser 203

Biography 203

Sister Carrie(1900) 205

An American Tragedy(1925) 209

Unit 18 Willa Cather 215

Biography 215

One of Ours(1922) 217