本选读根据国内外近二十年来美国文学研究和教学实践发展的*新成果,参考国内同类读本,选取自早期北美本土(印第安)文学传统到当代共六十余位作家的作品,主要有诗歌、小说和戏剧选段,特别选取了美国现当代及几位主要族裔作家的代表性作品,以期向使用者提供一本全面反映美国文学内容的读本。本书配有适量的语言及文化背景注释,以便利阅读、理解和讨论。

北美本土(印第安)文学——1860( From the Native Tradition to the 1860s)
Oral Literatures of the Native Americans
Ojibwa War Songs
Night Chant
Walam Olum (excerpt)
The Iroquois Creation Story
Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World
The Winnebago Trickster Cycle (excerpt)
John Smith
A Description of New England (excerpt)
William Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation (excerpt)
John Winthrop
A Model of Christian Charity (excerpt)
Anne Bradstreet
Selected Poems
The Flesh and the Spirit
Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (excerpt)
Philip Freneau
Selected Poems
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
James Fernimore Cooper
The Pioneers (excerpt)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature (excerpt)
The American Scholar (excerpt)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Selected Poems
A Psalm of Life
The Slave's Dream
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
John Greenleaf Whittier
Selected Poems
Ichabod !
Snow-Bound : A Winter Idyl (excerpt)
Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Ligeia
Henry David Thoreau
Resistance to Civil Government (excerpt)
Walden (excerpt)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (excerpt)
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick (excerpt)
Wait Whitman
Leaves of Grass (excerpt)
When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd
Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
现实主义、自然主义、多样性:1860--1914( The American Realism and Naturalism: 1860--1914 )
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (excerpt)
Henry James
The Real Thing
Kate Chopin
The Awakening (excerpt)
Edith Wharton
The Eyes
Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (excerpt)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Man Against the Sky
Richard Cory
Stephen Crane
The Open Boat
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie(excerpt)
两次大战间的美国文学 1914--1945 :现代主义 ( American Literature Between the wars: 1914--1945 )
Willa Cather
O Pioneers ! (excerpt)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall
The Investment
Jack London
The Call of the Wild (excerpt)
Sherwood Anderson
Mother
"Queer"
Carl Sandburg
Fog
Chicago
Wallace Stevens
Anecdote of the Jar
Sunday Morning
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
Ezra Pound
Canto IV
In a Station of the Metro
Marianne Moore
The Fish
What Are Years ?
Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night (excerpt)
Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas
Zora Neale Hurston
The Gilded Six-Bits
e. e. cummings
1(a
O Sweet Spontaneous
Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (excerpt)
John Dos Passos
The 42nd Parallel (excerpt)
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Weary Blues
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt)
现代美国文学 1945--2000 :从现代到后代( American Literature since 1945 )
Richard Wright
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Charles Olson
The Kingfishers
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire (excerpt)
Bernard Malamud
The Magic Barrel
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man (excerpt)
Saul Bellow
Herzog (excerpt)
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman (excerpt)
Robert Lowell
Waking in the Blue
James Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man
Flannery O'Connor
Good Country People
Allen Ginsberg
Howl (excerpt)
America
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye (excerpt)
John Updike
Separating
Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn (excerpt)
Maxin Hong Kingston
Woman warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts(excerpt)
Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club (excerpt)
Louis Erdrich
Fleur