CONTENTS

Preface

Ⅰ．The Colonial Period and 17th Century Literature of PuritanismThe Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Ⅱ．The Period of Enlightenment

The Historical Background

Catch-

The Development of Literature

Benjamin Franklin

from Autobiography

Philip Freneau

To the Memory of the Brave Americans

The Wild Honey Suckle

Ⅲ．New England Transcendentalism and the Romantic Age

A．Period of Pre-Romanticism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Washington Irving

from Rip Van Winkle

William Cullen Bryant

Thanatopsis

To a Waterfowl

B．Period of Post-Romanticism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Edgar Allan Poe

To Helen

The Raven

Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Nature

The Rhodora

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Chapter ⅪⅩ

The Scarlte Letter

Walt Whitman

from Song of Myself

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Psalm of Life

The Tide Rises,the Tide Falls

Harriet Beecher Stowe

from Uncle Tom's Cabin

Emily Dickinson

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Ⅳ．The Age of Realism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Chapter ⅩⅨ

Henry James

from The Art of Fiction

Ⅴ．American Naturalism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory

Miniver Cheevy

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Chapter 24

Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie

Chapter Ⅰ

Robert Lee Frost

Mending Wall

The Road Not Taken

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Ⅵ．American Modernism

The Historical Background

The Development ofLiterature

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Chapter XL Ⅰ

F．Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Chapter Ⅲ

John Steinbeck

Chapter Ⅹ

The Grapes of Wrath

T．S．Eliot

The Waste Land

I．The Burial of the Dead

William Faulkner

Dry September

Eugene O'Neill

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Act 2,SceneⅡ

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Saul Bellow

from Seize the Day

Joseph Heller

Chapter 40

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Allen Ginsberg

from Howl

Alice Walker

Everyday Use

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