《美国文学简介》求取 ⇩

CONTENTS1

Foreword and Acknowledgments Introduction1

Chapter 1 Colonial America：A New Land/A New Literature：Bradford，Bradstreet，Edwards5

Chapter 2 The Revolutionary Period：An Emergent National Literature19

Chapter 3 Early National Period：Irving，Bryant，Cooper38

Chapter 4 A National Literature and Romantic Individualism68

Chapter 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne（1804—1864）：Consummate Romantic75

Chapter 6 M id-Century Poets：Edgar Allan Poe （1809—1849）and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow（1807—1882）92

Chapter 7 Nature and the Individual：The Transcendentalism of Emerson （1803—82）and Thoreau（1817—62）122

Chapter 8 T he Anti-Slavery Impulse：Stowe，Douglass，Lowell，Whittier143

Chapter 9 Herman Melville（1819—1891）：Master of Philosophical Allegory149

Chapter 10 An Experiment in Form：Walt Whitman（1819—1892）174

Chapter 11 Emily Dickinson（1830—1886）：The Recluse of Amherst192

Chapter 12 From Civil War to New Century： Industrialism and the Rise of204

Literary Realism：Introductions to Howells，O．Henry204

Chapter 13 Mark Twain（1835—1910）：The Man，The Humorist，T he Social Critie，The Pessimist220

Chapter 14 Psychological Realism：Henry James（1843—1916）276

Chapter 15 Inner Conflict：Edith Wharton（1862—1937）304

Chapter 16 At the Turn of the Century：Muckraking and Reform，Naturalism324

Chapter 17 Two Naturalists：Jack London and（1876—1916）Stephen Crane（1871—1900）332

Chapter 18 Theodore Dreiser（1871—1945）：Naturalism and M oral Crisis in the Twentieth Century358

Selected Bibliography376

Index of Literary Works Used379