英美文学史及作品选读

本书是教育部师范司组织编写的“中学教师进修高等师范本科(专科起点)”规划教材。全书共由7章组成,分别介绍了美国各历史时期的文学状况、主要作家及其作品,并备有讨论题。

本书可作为中学英语教材进修高等师范英语专业本科之用,亦可供非英语专业人员和广大英语受好者自学英语之用。

权威性：本套教材系教育部师范司组编的英语专业规划教材。
编者与审者均为国内知名专家、教授及多年从事师范
英语教学的优秀教师。
针对性：本套教材汲取了国内外最新外语教学研究成果，理论
与实践并重，针对中学进修教师实际需要精心编写。
实用性：本套教材在选材与练习设计上以培养学习者综合语言
应用能力为宗旨，注重提高其业务能力。

Chapter One The Literature During the Colonial America and the American
Revolution1
Beniamin Franklin

Chapter TwoAmerican Romanticism and New England Literature 15
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
EdgarAllan Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
HelTtlanMelville

Chapter Three The Age of Realism and Naturalism 83
Mark Twain
Henry James
Theodore Dreiser

Chapter Four Twentieth-Century American Literature Before the War 121
Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
T．S．Eliot
F．Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck

Chapter Five The Twentieth-Century African-American Literature 187
William Edward Burg hardt DuBois
Langston Hughes
Ralph Ellison
James Baldwin
Toni Morrison

Chapter Six The Triumph of American Drama 235
Eugene O’Neill
Tennessee Williams
Arthur Miller

Chapter Seven The Post-War American Literature 269
Saul Bellow
J．D．Salinger
Joseph Heller
John Updike
参考书目

为了全面贯彻和落实《面向2l世纪教育振兴行动计划》，适应中学教育改革的发展和需要，教育部师范司制订了《中学教师进修高等师范本科(专科起点)的教学计划》(试行)，并开始组织编写全国通用教材。本教材是师范司和高等教育出版社在全国范围内征求主编的中标项目，它严格按照《计划》的精神和课时规定，坚持“文学史与作品选读并重，重点突出”的原则，以文学史为线索，选择各个时期最具代表性的作家的代表作进行学习，使学生对美国文学有一个总体的认识和把握。
本教材的目的是试图通过美国文学史的讲授和文学作品的阅读，使学员对美国不同历史时期，特别是19世纪以后的主要文学流派、代表作家及其经典作品有一定的了解，并在具体作品中学习体会各个时期的时代精神、作家的创作风格、创作手法和语言特色，培养并提高学员的阅读理解能力、文化理解能力、文学鉴赏能力和综合素质。

"1 know that, Marner. I was wrong. I've repented of my conduct in that matter," said Godfrey, who could not help feeling the edge of Silas's words.
"I'm glad to hear it, sir," said Marner, with gathering excitement; "but repentance doesn't alter what's been going on for sixteen year. Your coming now and saying 'I'm her father' doesn't alter the feelings inside us. It's me she's been calling her father ever since she could say the word."
"But I think you might look at the thing more reasonably, Marner," said Godfrey, unexpectedly awed by the weaver's direct truth-speaking. "It isn't as if she was to be taken quite away from you, so that you'd never see her again. She'll be very near you, and come to see you very often. She'll feel just the same towards you."
"Just the same?" said Marner, more bitterly than ever. "How'll she feel just the same for me as she does now, when we eat o' the same bit, and drink o' the same cup, and think of the same things from one day's end to another? Just the same? that's idle talk. You'd cut us i' two."
Godfrey, unqualified by experience to discern the pregnancy of Marner's simple words, felt rather angry again. It seemed to him that the weaver was very selfish (a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice) to oppose what was undoubtedly for Eppie's welfare; and he felt himself called upon, for her sake, to assert his authority.
"1 should have thought, Marner," he said, severely-"l should have thought your affection for Eppie would have made you rejoice in what was for her good, even if it did call upon you to give up something. You ought to remember that your own life is uncertain, and that she's at an age now when her lot may soon be fixed in a way very different from what it would be in her father's home: she may marry some low working-man, and then, whatever I might do for her, I couldn't make her well-off. You're putting yourself in the way of her welfare; and though rm sorry to hurt you after what you've done, and what rve left undone, I feel now it's my duty to insist on taking care of my own daughter. I want to do my duty."