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