目录
前言
Part 1 Early American Literature: Colonial Period to 1815
1 The Literature of the New World
2 The Literature of Colonial America: 1620—1763
3 Literature and the American Revolution: 1764—1815
Part 2 American Romanticism: 1815—1865
4 The Age of American Romanticism
5 Early Romanticism
6 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation
7 Interrogating Innocence
8 Whitman and Dickinson
9 A House Divided: Writing against Slavery
Part 3 American Realism: 1865—1914
10 The Age of Realism
11 Regional and Local Color Writing
12 Henry James and William Dean Howells
13 Literary Naturalism
14 Women Writing on the Woman Question
Part 4 American Modernism: 1914—1945
15 Modernism in the American Grain
16 The Evolution of Modernism
17 American Modernism in Europe
18 Modern Fiction between the Wars
19 Modern American Poetry
20 African American Literature and Modernism
Part 5 American Literature Diversified: From 1945 to the 21st Century
21 Literature Diversified under New Conditions
22 American Theatre: Three Major Playwrights
23 Major Fiction Writers: 1945 till 1960s
24 Poetic Tendencies since 1945
25 Fictional Inclinations since the 1960s
26 Contemporary Multiethnic Literature
27 Globalization of American Literature: Diasporic Writers
Selected Bibliography
Chronology of Historical Events
Index
作者简介
童明:[美](笔名,原名刘军)1992年获美国麻省大学英美文学博士学位,现任美国加州州立大学洛杉矶分校英语系教授;曾担任纽约联合国总部译员。撰写的有关英美文学、欧洲文学、文学文化理论的论文散见于美国学术出版社的专著和学术刊物:近作有《美国文学史》(英文)。