A Coue Description of American Literature

A Brief Introduction of American Literature

Part One Colonial Period and Early American
Literature(1620-1800)

Chapter 1 The Plante and the Purita

Background Information

1.1 Captain John Smith

From The Generall Historie

Captain Smith Among the India

1.2 William Bradford

From The Pilgrims Meet the India

1.3 Edward Taylor

The Jov of Church Fellowship Righdy Attended

Chapter2 The Founde ofthe Nation

Background Information

2.1 Benjamin Franklin

From The Whisfle

A Receipt to Make a New England Funeral Elegy

From The Way to Wealth

2.2 Thomas Paine

From Common See

2.3 Thomas Jeffeon

The Declaration of Independence

Part Two The Romantic Period(1780-1860)

Chapter 3 The New National Literature

Background Information

3.1 Washington Irving

The Devil and Tom Walker

3.2 James Fenimore Cooper

An Overview of The Deelayer

From The Deelayer

3.3 William Cullen Bryant

Thanatopsis

To a Waterfowl

3.4 Edgar Allan Poe

The Masque of the Red Death

Annabel Lee

To Helen

Chapter 4 The Tracendentalism

Background Information

Tracendentalism

4.1 Ralph Waldo Emeon

From Self-Reliance

The Rhodora

4.2 Henry David Thoreau

An Overview ofWalden

From Walden

Where I Lived，and What I Lived for

4.3 Henry Wadsworth Long fellow

The Aenal at Springfield

The Tide Rises，the Tide Falls

Nature

The Sound ofthe Sea

4.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Maypole of Merry Mount

An Overview of The Scarlet Letter

The Summary of Chapter 12

From The Scarlet Letter Chapter 12

The Minister's Vigil

Part Three The Aae of Realism(1860-1910)

Chapter 5 The Codflict between North and South

Background Information

5.1 Walt Whitman

Young Grimes

From Song of Myself

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

5.2 Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address，March 4，1865

5.3 Emily Dickion

I Like to See It Lap the Miles

I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose

Because I Could Not Stop for Death

5.4 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

An Overview of Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Summary of Chapter 12

From Uncle Tom's Cabin Chapter 12

Select Incident of Lawful Trade

Chapter 6New American Outlooks

Background Information

6.1 Mark Twain

From life on the Mississippi

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

An Overview of Ihe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Summary of Chapter 31

From The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn Chapter 31

6.2 Henry James

An Overview ofThe Portrait of a Lady

The Sunanary of Chapter 7

From The Portrait of a Lady Chapter7

6.3Stephen Crane

A Mystery of Heroism

6.4 Theodore Dreiser

An Overview of Sister Carrie

A Summary of Chapter 47

From Sister Carrie Chapter 47.

The Way of the Beaten—A Harp in the Wind

Part Four Modern American Literature(1910-)

Chapter 7 American Literature after WW Ⅰ

Background Information

7.1 Ezra Pound

In a Station of the Metro

The River-Merchant's Wife：A Letter

A Pact

7.2 Sherwood Andeon

From Winesburg，Ohio

Sophistication

From Winesburg，Ohio

Mother

7.3 Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Fire and Ice

To a Young Wretch

Mending Wall

7.4 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

An Overview ofThe Great Gatsbv

From The Great Gatsby Chapter 3

7.5 Ernest Hemingway

In Another Country

An Overview.ofA Farewell to Arms

From A Farewell to Arms Chapter 36

7.6 Eugene O’Neill

An Overview ofThe Hairy Ape

From The Hairy Ape SCENE Ⅰ

From The Hairy Ape SCENE Ⅱ

From The Hairy Ape SCENE Ⅲ

7.7 John Ert Steinbeck

The Leader of the People

An Overview ofThe Grapes of Wrath

From The Grapes of Wra山Chapter 9

7.8 William.Faulkner

The Bear

Chapter 8 American Literature after WW Ⅱ

Background Information

The War Novelists

The Southern Write

The Jewish Write

The Beat Generation and the Beat Write

The Black Humor/Black Humorist

The Black Write

The Feminist Write

8.1Saul BeHow

An Overview ofThe Adventures of Augie March

From The Adventures of Augie March Chapter 21

8.2 Norman Mailer

From“The White Negro”2

From“The White Negro”4

An Overview ofThe Armies of the Night

From The Armies of the Night

Part 6—A Trafer of Power

8.3 J.D.Salinger

An Overview ofThe Catcher in the Rye

From The Catcher in The Rye Chapter 22

From The Catcher in the Rye Chapter 24

8.4 Joseph Heller

An Overview of Catch-22

From Catch-22 Chapter 40

From Catch-22 Chapter 42

8.5 The Black WIite

Background Information

Langston Hughes

Negro Speaks of Rive

Richard Wright

From Black Boy

James Baldmn

An Overview of Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

From TeU Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

8.6 The Southera Write

Background Information

Robert Penn Warren

Infant Boy at Midcentury

Truman Capote

From In Cold Blood

Flannery O'Connor

An Overview of A Good Man is Hard to Find

From A Good Man Is Hard to Find

8.7 The Jewish Write

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gimpel the Fool

The Son from America

8.8 The Feminist Write

Sylvia Plath

Words

Daddv

Alice Walker

Everyday Use

For Your Grandmama

Appendix Ⅰ A Chronology of American Literature and Life

Appendix Ⅱ Literary Terms

Appendix Ⅲ Suggested Awe to the Questio

Appendix Ⅳ Tests

Appendix Ⅴ 試卷參考答案

Appendix Ⅳ Bibliography