《美国文学选读(第2版）》在参考靠前同类书籍的基础上，针对英语专业复合型人才培养的特定需要和教学的实际情况，精选了从殖民地时期到20世纪末近30位重要作家的代表作品，在体裁上兼顾小说、诗歌、戏剧与散文。全书按照历史发展顺序展开，涵盖了从本杰明·富兰克林到托马斯·品钦等美国文学各重要时期代表作家的作品，内容包括作者简介、作品选读、作品注释和赏析思考题等。
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
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