陈世丹、屈晓丽主编的《美国文学史(上下超越概念高等院校英语专业系列教材)》选择Washington Irving，James Fenimore Cooper,William Cullen Bryant Edgar Allan Poe，Ralph Waldo Emerson，Henry David Thoreau，Nathaniel Hawthorne，Herman Melville和Henry Wadsworth Longfellow为19世纪浪漫主义时期美国文学的代表作家；Walt Whitman。Emily Dickinson，Harriet Beecher Stowe，Mark Twain，Henry James，Edith Wharton，Jack London．Theodore Dreiser和Willa Cather为19世纪现实主义时期美国文学的代表作家；Ezra Pound，Wallace Stevens．T．S．Eliot.Ernest Hemingway,William Faulkner和Eugene O’Neill为20世纪现代主义时期美国文学的代表作家；Robert Frost，F．Scott Fitzgerald和Arthur Miller为20世纪现代主义文学繁荣时期仍坚持现实主义文学创作的代表作家。第二……

陈世丹、屈晓丽主编的《美国文学史（上下超越概念高等院校英语专业系列教材）》全面、系统地描述了自17世纪以来各个历史时期的美国文学，主要内容包括文学流派介绍、综合述评、作家介绍、专题述评等。

《美国文学史（上下超越概念高等院校英语专业系列教材）》专为高校英语语言文学专业本科生课程中的美国文学教学服务，遵循史论结合、详略得当的编写原则，既为教师的课堂讲授和学生的自主学习提供丰富的史学知识，又给教师和学生对本门课程的教学内容建构和课堂创新性发言讨论留下足够的发挥空间。

PART 1 AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD (1607--1700)

Historical Introduction

American Puritanism

 Early New England Literature

John Smith

John Cotton

 Roger Williams

Anne Bradstreet

 Edward Taylor

PART 2 AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF REASON AND

REVOLUTION (1700-- 1800)

Historical Introduction

 Enlightenment and American Revolution

 Neoclassicism

 Benjamin Franklin

 Thomas Paine

 Thomas Jefferson

 Philip Freneau

PART 3 AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1800--1865)

Historical Introduction

 Literary Characteristics

 Romanticism

Washington Irving

  His Life and Writing Career

  Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Short Stories

James Fenirnore Cooper

  His Life and Writing Career

  Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel

William Cullen Bryant

  His Life and Writing Career

  Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Poem

Edgar Allan Poe

  His Life and Writing Career

 Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 His Life and Writing Career

 Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Works

Henry David Thoreau

 His Life and Writing Career

 Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Work

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 His Life and Writing Career

 Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel

Herman Melville

 His Life and Writing Career

 Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 His Life and Writing Career

Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Poems

PART 4 AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE REALISTIC PERIOD (1865--1900)

Historical Introduction 

 Realism

Naturalism

Psychological Realism

Walt Whitman

 His Life and Writing Career

 Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Poems

Emily Dickinson

 Her Life and Writing Career

 Analyses of and Comments on Her Representative Poems

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Her Life and Writing Career

 Analysis of and Comment on Her Representative Novel

Mark Twain

 His Life and Writing Career

 Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel

Henry James

 His Life and Writing Career

 Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel

Edith Wharton

 Her Life and Writing Career

 Analysis of and Comment on Her Representative Novel

Jack London

 Her Life and Writing Career

 Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Novels

Theodore Dreiser

 His Life and Writing Career

 Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Novels

Willa Cather

  Her Life and Writing Career

 Analysis of and Comment on Her Representative Novel