Ⅰ. American Literature before the Civil War
( 1607 ~ 1860s)
Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister's Black Veil
Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Walt Whitman
One's-self I Sing
I Hear America Singing
Emily Dickinson
I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died-
Because I Could Not Stop for Death-
Ⅱ. The American Realism and Naturalism
(1865~1914)
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Henry James
Daisy Miller
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
Ⅲ. American Literature between the Wars
(1914~1945)
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Mending Wall
Ezra Pound
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
T. S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
William Fauikner
A Rose for Emily
Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night
Ernest Hemingway
Hills Like White Elephants
Ⅳ. American Literature since 1945
(1945~)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gimpel the Fool
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Saul Bellow
A Father-to-Be
Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket in California
John Updike
A&P
Thomas Pynchon
Entropy
Maxine Hong Kingston
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
References

全书包括序言和正文两部分。序言部分简要介绍美国文学发展的历史、各阶段重要的文学流派及代表性作家与作品。正文部分按照不同的历史时期分为4个章节，每章节包括该时期文学概况、作者简介、作品情节简介和赏析、选文、注释和思考题5个方面。本书以近年来美国文学研究和教学