《21世纪英语专业系列教程：美国文学作品选读（第2版）》按美国文学史的五个发展阶段简略介绍了美国文学发展的时代背景以及每一个发展时期最重要的作家的生平、代表作及写作风格。
该书精选了18世纪末至20世纪80年代美国22位作家的名篇。这些作品从不同角度反映了美国社会不同时期的某些侧面；作品种类包括长、短篇小说、诗歌、散文、戏剧等。该书借助西方文论精心设计了讨论题，以开拓学生思路。书后所附答案可供学生自学时参考。该书可供教学时数为40课时的文学课使用，也可用作大学英语研究生和本科生辅修课教材或文学爱好者的读物。
Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism
Introduction to the Background
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister-s Black Veil
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
Selected Poems
Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
Chapter Two American Realism
Introduction to the Background
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Henry James
Daisy Miller
Chapter Three American Naturalism
Introduction to the Background
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Robert Frost
Selected Poems
Chapter Four American Modernism
Introduction to the Background
Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
Selected Poems
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
T.S.E.liot
The Waste Land
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner
That Ecening Sun
Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
John Steinbeck
EugeneO'Neill
The Graene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night
Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945
Introduction to the Background
Ralph Ellison
Selected Reading
Invisible Man
About the Author
Saul Bellow
Selected Reading
Herzog
Key
References
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