由胡荫桐和刘树森共同主编的《美国文学教程（英文版）》是一本用英语编写、文学史与作品选读相结合的英语专业本科生教材。文学史部分主要介绍美国文学中几个重要时期的历史背景、文学思潮、文学流派以及作家的文学生涯、艺术特色及代表作品的情节；作品选读部分选择了美国文学中代表人物的优秀作品，主要包括短篇小说、诗歌和散文等，并提供了必要的注释和小说的生词表。

Preface

I. The Colonial Period and 17th Century Literature of Puritanism

 The Historical Background

 The Development of Literature

Ⅱ. The Period of Enlightenment

 The Historical Background

 The Development of Literature

 Benjamin Franklin

from Autobiography

 Philip Freneau

To the Memory of the Brave Americans

The Wild Honey Suckle

Ⅲ. New England Transcendentalism and the Romantic Age

 A. Period of Pre-Romanticism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Washington Irving

 from Rip Van Winkle

William Cullen Bryant

 Thanatopsis

 To a Waterfowl

 B. Period of Post-Romanticism

The Historical Background

The Development of Literature

Edgar Allan Poe

 To Helen

 The Raven

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 from Nature

 The Rhodora

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 The Scarlte Letter

  Chapter XIX

Walt Whitman

 from Song of Myself

 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 A Psalm of Life

 The Tide Rises ,the Tide Falls

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 from Uncle Tom's Cabin

Emily Dickinson

 67

 303

 449

 632

 1129

Ⅳ. The Age of Realism

 The Historical Background

 The Development of Literature

 Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 Chapter XIX

 Henry James

from The Art of Fiction

Ⅴ. American Naturalism

 The Historical Background

 The Development of Literature

 Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory

Miniver Cheevy

 Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

 Chapter 24

 Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie

 Chapter I

 Robert Lee Frost

Mending Wall

The Road Not Taken

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Ⅵ. American Modernism

 The Historical Background

 The Development of Literature

 Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

 Chapter XLI

F.Scott Fitzgerald

 The Great Gatsby

  Chapter Ⅲ

John Steinbeck

 The Grapes of Wrath

  Chapter X

T.S.Eliot

 The Waste Land

  I. The Burial of the Dead

William Faulkner

 Dry September

Eugene O'Neill

 Long Day's Journey Into Night

Act 2, Scene Ⅱ

Ⅶ. American Literature since 1945

 The Historical Background

 The Development of Literature

 Saul Bellow

from Seize the Day

 Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Chapter 40

 Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

 Allen Ginsberg

from Howl

 Alice Walker

Everyday Use

Index

Main Reference Books