CONTENTS 1
Preface 1
Ⅰ．The Colonial Period and 17th Century Literature of PuritanismThe Historical Background 1
The Development of Literature 6
Ⅱ．The Period of Enlightenment 18
The Historical Background 18
Catch- 22
The Development of Literature 30
Benjamin Franklin 41
from Autobiography 47
Philip Freneau 59
To the Memory of the Brave Americans 63
The Wild Honey Suckle 65
Ⅲ．New England Transcendentalism and the Romantic Age 67
A．Period of Pre-Romanticism 67
The Historical Background 67
The Development of Literature 75
Washington Irving 84
from Rip Van Winkle 89
William Cullen Bryant 103
Thanatopsis 106
To a Waterfowl 110
B．Period of Post-Romanticism 112
The Historical Background 112
The Development of Literature 117
Edgar Allan Poe 127
To Helen 131
The Raven 133
Ralph Waldo Emerson 139
from Nature 143
The Rhodora 155
Nathaniel Hawthorne 157
Chapter ⅪⅩ 160
The Scarlte Letter 160
Walt Whitman 170
from Song of Myself 177
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 188
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 200
A Psalm of Life 203
The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls 205
Harriet Beecher Stowe 207
from Uncle Tom's Cabin 209
Emily Dickinson 220
67 224
303 225
449 226
632 227
1129 228
Ⅳ．The Age of Realism 229
The Historical Background 229
The Development of Literature 235
Mark Twain 241
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 247
Chapter ⅩⅨ 247
Henry James 258
from The Art of Fiction 264
Ⅴ．American Naturalism 271
The Historical Background 271
The Development of Literature 275
Edwin Arlington Robinson 281
Richard Cory 285
Miniver Cheevy 285
Stephen Crane 288
The Red Badge of Courage 292
Chapter 24 292
Theodore Dreiser 298
Sister Carrie 304
Chapter Ⅰ 304
Robert Lee Frost 315
Mending Wall 321
The Road Not Taken 322
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 323
Ⅵ．American Modernism 326
The Historical Background 326
The Development ofLiterature 330
Ernest Hemingway 340
A Farewell to Arms 344
Chapter XL Ⅰ 344
F．Scott Fitzgerald 366
The Great Gatsby 370
Chapter Ⅲ 370
John Steinbeck 390
Chapter Ⅹ 393
The Grapes of Wrath 393
T．S．Eliot 413
The Waste Land 415
I．The Burial of the Dead 415
William Faulkner 426
Dry September 431
Eugene O'Neill 445
Long Day's Journey Into Night 449
Act 2,SceneⅡ 449
The Historical Background 480
The Development of Literature 487
Saul Bellow 493
from Seize the Day 498
Joseph Heller 521
Chapter 40 523
Flannery O'Connor 535
A Good Man Is Hard to Find 537
Allen Ginsberg 557
from Howl 560
Alice Walker 570
Everyday Use 572
lndex 584
Main Reference Books 605
Ⅶ．American Literature since 1945