《新编美国文学选读》在广泛参考国内外现有的同类读本后精选出27位重要美国作家的作品篇章,涉及小说、诗歌、戏剧、散文等各种文学样式,涵盖了近200年来美国文学的发展历史。《选读》除美国文学原著外附作家、作品、时代介绍,以及相关注解、思考题、解读举例、简评等内容,以方便学生学习,开拓学生思路,是一本选材精当、编排新颖的美国文学教材。

AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
James Fenimore Cooper
The Last Mohicans, Chap. 12 (excerpt)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Introduction, Chap. 1 (excerpt)
The American Scholar, Part 2
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister's Black Veil
Edgar Allan Poe
—To Helen
The Masque of the Red Death
Henry David Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods, Economy (excerpt)
Where I lived, and What I Lived for
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself, 1, 6, 16, 17, 24, 42, 51, 52
Come up from the Fields, Father
O Captain! My Captain!
Herman Melville
Moby Dick, Chaps. 36, 42
Emily Dickinson
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Elysium Is as Far as to
We Learned the Whole of Love
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant
AMERICAN LITERATURE BETWEEN 1865-1914
Marh Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chap 19
Henry ,lames
Daisy Miller, Part 3
Kale ChOPin
The Story of an Hour
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage, Chaps. 9, 24
AMERICAN LITERATURE BETWEEN THE TWO WARS: 1914-1945
Robert Frost
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
Fire and Ice
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Birches
Sherwood Anderson
Hands
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
Spring and All
This Is Just to Say
The Dance
Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
L'Art, 1910
A Pact
The River—Merchant's Wife: A Letter
F. scott Fltzgeraid
The Great Gatsby, Chap. 9
Eilliam Fauilmer
A Rose for Emily
Eraeat Hemingaway
The Killers
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1945-
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, Chap. 22
Joseph Hellor
Catch-22, Chap. 5 (excerpt)
Allen Ginsberg
How1
M. scott Memaday
House Made of Dawn, Prologue; Part 1, Chap. 1
Teal Morrlson
Beloved, Part 1, Chap. 5
Raymond Carver
So Much Water So Close to Home
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior, Part 1……

《新编美国文学选读》(以下简称《新编》)是一套适合大学英语本科高年级英国文学课需要的,编排方法更为新颖、合理、实用的美国文学选读本。该选本在研究参考了国内外现有的美国文学选本的基础上,针对我国本科英语专业英国文学课教学的实际情况,精选了美国文学各重要时期的代表作家共30名以及他们的作品选篇,反映了美国文学的大致轮廓。