蒙雪梅、张扬主编的《北美文学史及经典作品选读（英文版）》将“历史背景，文学史”和“文选”相结合，全书共分为8章，美国文学部分按照文学史的先后顺序分成7个不同的时期，加拿大文学一章。书中简明介绍了美加文学从起源到20世纪的历史文化背景、文学史特点，选择代表作家和经典作品。每章包括作家生平简介、作品介绍、注释、名词解释、思考题等。本书线索清晰，希望为学生搭建美加文学框架，引导学生阅读原著，感受美加文学的人文精神和丰富的思想内涵，帮助学生开扩国际视野。
本书既可作为我国高等院校使用的课程教材，也可供广大北美文学爱好者阅读。

Chapter 1 American Indian Lengend Literature
Chapter 2 The Literature of the Colonial and Puritan America
Unit 1 Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Unit 2 Philip Morin Freneau
The Wild Honeysuckle
Chapter 3 The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Unit 1 Yankee Doodle
Unit 2 Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Unit 3 Katharine Lee Bates
America the Beautiful
Chapter 4 American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Unit 1 Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
Unit 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Unit 3 Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Unit 5 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
My Lost Youth
Unit 6 Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
City of Orgies
O Captain! My Captain!
Unit 7 Emily Dickinson
There Is Another Sky
I' m Nobody!
Chapter 5 American Realism and Naturalism
Unit 1 Mark Twain
The Million Pound Bank Note
Unit 2 Henry James
Daisy Miller
Unit 3 O. Henry
After Twenty Years
Chapter 6 American Modernism Literature
Unit 1 Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Unit 2 Carl Sandburg
Chicago
Fog
Unit 3 William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
Unit 4 Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
Unit 5 Hart Crane
To Brooklyn Bridge
Unit 6 Edward Estlin Cummings
L(a
Unit 7 F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Unit 8 William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
Unit 9 Ernest Hemingway
A Day' s Wait
Unit 10 Eugene O'Neill
The Hairy Ape
Chapter 7 American Literature Post-World War I
Unit 1 John Cheerer
The Enormous Radio
Unit 2 Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
Unit 3 Robert Train Spence Lowell
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Unit 4 Jerome David Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Unit 5 Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
Unit 6 Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Unit 7 John Ashbery
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Unit 8 Bob Dylan
Blowing in the Wind
Unit 9 John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Road
Chapter 8 Canadian Literature
Unit 1 Red River Valley
Unit 2 Margaret Laurence
The Loons
Unit 3 Alice Munro
Runaway
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