【内容简介】
本书“历史背景，文学史”和“文选”结合，全书共分为6章，美国文学各个部分按照文学史的先后顺序分成5个不同的时期，加拿大文学选了一章。书中简明介绍了美加文学从起源到20世纪的历史文化背景、文学史特点，选择代表作家和经典作品。每章包括作家生平简介、作品介绍、注释、名词解释、思考题等。本书线索清晰，希望为学生搭建美加文学框架，引导学生阅读原著，感受美加文学的人文精神和丰富的思想内涵，帮助学生开扩国际视野。
本书既可作为我国高等院校学生使用的通识课程教材，也可供广大北美文学爱好者阅读。
【目 录】
Chapter 1 TheLiterature of the Colorual and Puritan．America
I．HistoricalBackground
II．LiteraryBackground
BenjaminFranklin
TheAutobiography
Chapter 2American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
I．HistoricalBackground
II．LiteraryBackground
Unit 1 WaslungtonIrving
Rip Van Winkle
Unit 2 RalphWaldo Emerson
Nature
Unit 3 HenryDavid Thoreau
Walden
Unit 4 NathanielHawthome
The ScarletLetter
Unit 5 HenryWadsworthLongfellow
A Psalm of Life
Unit 6 WaltWhitman
Song of Myself
Unit 7 EmilyDickinson
There Is AnotherSky
I'm Nobody!
Chapter 3American Realism and Naturalism
I．HistoricalBackground
II．LiteraryBackground
Unit 1 MarkTwain
The MillionPound Bank Note
Unit 2 HenryJames
Daisy Miller
Unit 3 O．Henry
After TwentyYears
Chapter 4 20thCentury American Literature Pre-WWII
I．HistoricalBackground
11．LiteraryBackground
Unit 1 RobertFrost
The Road NotTaken
Stopping byWoods on， a Snowy Evening
Unit 2 EzraPound
In a Station ofthe Metro
Unit3 F．Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Unit 4 WilliamFaulkner
The Sound andthe Fury
Unit 5 ErnestHenungway
A Day's Wait
Unit 6 EugeneO'Neill
The Hairy Ape
Chapter 5 20thCentury American Literature Post -WWII
I．HistoricalBackground
II．LiteraryBackground
Unit 1 JohnCheever
The EnormousRadio
Unit 2 ArthurMiller
Death of aSalesman，
Unit 3 JeromeDavid Salinger
The Catcher intheRye
Unit 4 KurtVonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
Unit 5 JosephHeller
Catch-22
Chapter 6Canadian Literature
