本书所选作家作品贯穿整个美国文学史，结集了美国文学史上重要作家的作品。本书包含着各种风格及各个时期不同作家的作品，从开国先贤，如富兰克林、华盛顿、汉密尔顿、杰斐逊、麦迪逊，到19世纪的文学大师，如马克吐温Mark Twain、亨利梭罗Henry David Thoreau、爱伦坡Edgar Allan Poe，以及20世纪名家，如詹姆斯鲍德温James Baldwin、斯科特菲茨杰拉德F. Scott Fitzgerald和斯坦贝克John Steinbeck）等。
CONTENTS
Unit 1Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
Bibliography
Autobiography
Answers for questions
Unit 2Thomas Jefferson1743-1826
Bibliography
The Declaration ofIndependence
Answers for the questions
Unit 3Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849
Bibliography
The Black Cat
Answers for questions
Unit 4Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
Bibliography
Nature
Answers for questions
Unit 5Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
Bibliography
Walden
Answers for the questions
Unit 6NathanielHawthorne1804-1864
Biography
The Scarlet Letter
Answers for questions
Unit 7Herman Melville 1819-1891
Biography
Moby Dick
Answers for questions
Unit 8Mark Twain 1835-1910
Bibliography
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Answers for questions
Unit 9Henry James 1843-1916
Bibliography
Daisy Miller
Answers for questions
Unit 10JackLondon1876-1916
Bibliography
The Call of the Wild
Answers for questions
Unit 11Theodore Dreiser 1871-1945
Bibliography
Sister Carrie
Answers for questions
Unit 12 Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940
Bibliography
The Great Gatsby
Answers for questions
Unit 13Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961
Bibliography
The Old Man and the Sea
Answers for questions
Unit 14William Cuthbert Faulkner 1897-1962
Bibliography
The Sound and the Fury
Answers for questions
Unit 15 Henry 1862-1910
Bibliography
The Gift of the Magi
Answers for questions
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Prelude
American literature mainly refers to the literature produced by people living in the United States During its early history, America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the presentday United States Therefore, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English literature However, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition
The New England colonies were the center of early American literature The revolutionary period contained political writings by Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine In the postwar period, Thomas Jeffersons United States Declaration of Independence solidified his status as a key American writer It was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nations first novels were published With the War of 1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture, a number of key new literary figures emerged, perhaps most prominently Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 started a movement known as Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 wrote Walden, which urges resistance to the dictates of organized society The political conflict surrounding abolitionism inspired the writings of William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe in her worldfamous Uncle Toms Cabin These efforts were supported by the continuation of the slave narrative autobiography, of which the best known example from this period was Frederick Douglasss Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 is notable for his masterpiece The Scarlet Lettera novel about adultery Hawthorne influenced Herman Melville 1819-1891 who is notable for the books MobyDick and Billy Budd Americas two greatest 19th century poets were Walt Whitman 1819-1892 and Emily Dickinson 1830-1886. American poetry reached its peak in the earlytomid20th century, with such noted writers as Wallace Stevens, T S Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and E E Cummings Mark Twain the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910 was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast Henry James 1843-1916 was notable for novels like The Turn of the Screw At the beginning of the 20th century, American novelists included Edith Wharton 1862-1937, Stephen Crane 1871-1900, and Theodore Dreiser 1871-1945. Experimentation in style and form is seen in the works of Gertrude Stein 1874-1946.
American writers expressed disillusionment following WWI The stories and novels of F Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940 capture the mood of the 1920s, and John Dos Passos wrote about the war Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 became notable for The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; in 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature William Faulkner 1897-1962 is notable for novels like The Sound and the Fury American drama attained international status only in the 1920s and 1930s, with the works of Eugene ONeill, who won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize In the middle of the 20th century, American drama was dominated by the work of playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, as well as by the maturation of the American musical
Depression era writers included John Steinbeck 1902-1968, notable for his novel The Grapes of Wrath Henry Miller assumed a unique place in American Literature in the 1930s when his semiautobiographical novels were banned from the US From the end of World War II up until, roughly, the late 1960s and early 1970s saw the publication of some of the most popular works in American history such as To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Americas involvement in World War II influenced the creation of works such as Norman Mailers The Naked and the Dead 1948, Joseph Hellers Catch22 1961 and Kurt Vonnegut Jrs SlaughterhouseFive 1969. John Updike was notable for his novel Rabbit, Run 1960. Philip Roth explores Jewish identity in American society From the early 1970s to the present day the most important literary movement has been postmodernism and the flowering of literature by ethnic minority writers
This book, with vivid illustration of pictures and detailed explanation and Chinese version presents you the best works of American literature and will help you have a profound understanding of the classics I hope that this book will be helpful for your English learning
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