美国文学简史

　　《美国文学简史》试图简洁而全面地展现美国民族的想象力——以文字形式体现出来的想象力。《美国文学简史》共分五章，第一章实际上是前史，即美国文学正式诞生前的文学史，是对新大陆这一“伊甸园”的想象。第二章的主题为“美国文学的创造”，与“创造美国”这一主题密切相关，论述美国从1800年建国后到1865年南北战争结束之间的美国文学。第三章的主题为“重现过去，重塑未来”，与“重建美国”这一主题密切相关，论述南北战争后到1900年之间的美国文学。第四章的主题为现代美国和现代主义，论述1900年至1945年二战结束之间的美国文学。第五章的主题是“美国的世纪”，论述1945年二战结束后美国逐渐称霸时期的美国文学。

暂缺《美国文学简史》作者简介

1 The First Americans：American Literature During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
Imagining Eden
Writing of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
2 Inventing Americas：The Making of American Literature 1800-1865 Making a Nation
The Making of American Myths
The Making of American Selves
The Making of Many Americas
The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry
3 Reconstructing the Past， Reimagining the Future：The Development of American Literature 1865-1900
Rebuilding a Nation
The Development of Literary Regionalisms
The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism
The Development of Women's Writing
The Development of Many Americas
4 Making It New：The Emergence of Modern American Literature 1900-1945
Changing National Identities
Between Victorianism and Modernism
The Inventions of Modernism
Traditionalism， Politics， and Prophecy
Community and Identity
Mass Culture and the Writer
5 Negotiating the American Century：American Literature Since 1945
Towards a Transnational Nation
Formalists and Confessionals
Public and Private Histories
Beats， Prophets， and Aesthetes
The Art and Politics of Race
Realism and Its Discontents
Language and Genre
Creating New Americas
Index