赵祥凤、张荣升、刘艳辉主编的《美国文学史及选读》共收录30位美国作家及其代表作品。它们是美国不同历史时期、不同文学流派及不同群体的名家名作，具有一定的代表性。编写本书的目的是为英语语言文学专业的学生和美国文学爱好者提供学习与欣赏名家名作的机会。本书每篇体例包括作者介绍、艺术特色、主要作品概述、作品原文赏析、思考题和参考文献六个部分，其中作品原文赏析部分又细化为原著节选、注释、选文介绍、选文分析和讨论题五个部分。作者介绍简明扼要；作品原文有全文，也有节选；注释清楚明了；选文介绍简洁凝练，画龙点睛；讨论题自由开放。本教材教学内容可供英语专业学生一个学期使用。

Chapter 1 Colonial and Revolutionary Period

 Lecture 1 Benjamin Franklin and The Autobiography

Chapter 2 Age of Romanticism

 Lecture 2 Washington Irving and The Sketch Book

 Lecture 3 Nathanial Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter

 Lecture 4 Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass

 Lecture 5 Edgar Allen Poe and The Raven

Chapter 3 Age of Transcendentalism

 Lecture 6 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nature

Chapter 4 Age of Realism

 Lecture 7 Local Colorism and Mark Twain

Chapter 5 Age of Naturalism

 Lecture 8 Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie

Chapter 6 Modern Poetry

 Lecture 9 Imagism and Ezra Pound

 Lecture 10 T．S．Eliot and The Waste Land 

Chapter 7 Modern Novels

 Lecture 11 Jazz Age and F．Scott Fitzgerald

 Lecture 12 Lost Generation and Ernest Hemingway

 Lecture 13 Southern Renaissance and William Faulkner

 Lecture 14 Depression Writers and John Steinbeck

Chapter 8 Modern Dramas

 Lecture 15 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill and Long DayS Journey into the Night

 Lecture l6 Arthur Miller and The Death of a Salesman

 Lecture l7 Tennessee Williams and A Streetcar Named Desire

Chapter 9 Contemporary Novels 

 Lecture l8 Beat Generation and Jack Kerouac

 Lecture l9 J．D．Salinger and The Catcher in the Rye

 Lecture 20 Black Humor and Joseph Heller

 Lecture 21 Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse—Five

 Lecture 22 Ken Kesey and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

 Lecture 23 Donald Barthelme and Meta—fiction

Chapter 10 Contemporary Dramas 

 Lecture 24 Theatre of Absurd and Edward Albee

Chapter 11 Contemporary Poetry

 Lecture 25 Confessional School and Sylvia Plath

Chapter l2 Jewish American Writers

 Lecture 26 Saul Bellow and Herzo9 

Chapter l3 African American Literature

 Lecture 27 Ralph Ellison and Invisible Man

 Lecture 28 Toni Morrison and Beloved 

Chapter l4 Chinese American Literature

 Lecture 29 Maxine Hong Kingston and The Woman Warrior

 Lecture 30 Amy Tan and The joy Luck Club

Appendix Glossary of Literary Terms