本书的编写原则以及编写体例与《英国文学名著故事梗概及作品导读》相同。故事梗概皆系英语国家专业人士撰写,英文地道流畅,内容准确无误。所选文学作品题材广泛,主要包括长篇小说和戏剧,时间跨度从美国浪漫主义时期一直到20世纪80年代。所选篇目符合《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》的要求,思想性和艺术性兼顾,同时尽量吸收国外最新的研究成果。为方便学生自学,故事梗概采用了英汉对照方式,配以美国文学专业教师撰写的深入浅出的作品导读。将美国文学分为浪漫主义时期、现实主义时期和二十世纪文学三个阶段,选取其间最有代表性的作家作品进行介绍。
本书适合作为高等学校英语语言文学专业配套教材,与《美国文学史》教材同时使用。此外,本书还可以作为美国文学通识课程教材,亦可供具有一定英语水平的自学者使用。
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
浪漫主义时期
Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
The Deerslayer
Nathanid Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
The Marble Faun
The House of the Seven Gables
Herrmm Melville
Moby Dick
Type
AMERICAN REALISM
现实主义时期
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Life on the Mississippi
Pudd' nhead Wilson
William Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
The Financier
An American Tragedy
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Jack London
The Sea Wolf
The Call of the Wild
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
The Age of Irmocence
Ethan Frome
Willa Cather
O! Pioneers
My Antonia
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel
Twentieth Century Literature
二十世纪文学
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
Zola Neal Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio
Dark Laughter
Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth
Dragon Seed
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
Main Street
F. Scott Fitzagerald
The Great Gatsby
Earnest I-Iemingway
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
William Faulkner
Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
John Dos Passos
Manhattan Transfer
Richard Wright
Native Son
Eugene O' Neff
Long Day' s Journey into Night
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Vladhnir Nabokov
Lolita
Joseph Heller
Catch 22
Toni Morrison
Beloved