童明教授在美国加州大学从事教学与研究多年。《美国文学史(增订版)》以他的学术积累为依托，专为中国读者而写。既有对美国文学发展历史的宏观叙述，又有对具体作品的细致分析，内容丰富，观点新颖，评价中肯，文笔流畅，是一部让人难以释手的文学史著作，更是一本英语专业师生不可或缺的好教材。

《美国文学史(增订版)》为高等学校英语专业美国文学史课程教材，由童明所著。《美国文学史(增订版)》具有以下特点：

增订版内容更加充实，涵盖美国自殖民时期至21世纪初600年来的文学、哲学、文化思潮；

精辟解读重要作家的经典作品，既可用作教材，也是难得的学术专著；

跨文化的视角，多层次的叙述，新意卓见，皎然迭出；

在欧美近代思潮的宏观图景内论述美国文学的传统风格及50年来的文学主流和势脉；

英语行文流畅优雅，庄谐并陈，引人入胜。

前言

Part 1 Early American Literature: Colonial Period to 1815

Chapter 1 The Literature of the New World

Chapter 2 The Literature of Colonial America: 1620—1763

Chapter 3 Literature and the American Revolution: 1764—1815

Part 2 American Romanticism: 1815—1865

Chapter 4 The Age of American Romanticism

Chapter 5 Early Romanticism

Chapter 6 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation

Chapter 7 Interrogating Innocence

Chapter 8 Whitman and Dickinson

Chapter 9 A House Divided: Writing against Slavery

Part 3 American Realism: 1865—1914

Chapter 10 The Age of Realism

Chapter 11 Regional and Local Color Writing

Chapter 12 Henry James and William Dean Howells

Chapter 13 Literary Naturalism

Chapter 14 Women Writing on the Woman Question

Part 4 American Modernism: 1914—1945

Chapter 15 Modernism in the American Grain

Chapter 16 The Evolution of Modernism

Chapter 17 American Modernism in Europe

Chapter 18 Modern Fiction between the Wars

Chapter 19 Modern American Poetry

Chapter 20 African American Literature and Modernism

Part 5 American Literature Diversified: From 1945 to the 21st Century

Chapter 21 Literature Diversified under New Conditions

Chapter 22 American Theatre: Three Major Playwrights

Chapter 23 Major Fiction Writers: 1945 till 1960s

Chapter 24 Poetic Tendencies since 1945

Chapter 25 Fictional Inclinations since the 1960s

Chapter 26 Contemporary Multiethnic Literature

Chapter 27 Globalization of American Literature: Diasporic Writers

Appendix 1 Questions for Discussion & Writing Assignment and Research Resources

Appendix 2 Chronology of Historical Events

Index

Selected Bibliography