赵文书编著的《新编美国文学教程(新经典高等学校英语专业系列教材)》以作品选读为主，辅以简明的文学史概述。全书甄选了40位作家及其作品，适当增加了现当代作家的分量，以增强学习者对现当代美国文学的理解和思考；对文学论文的三种写作类型进行了讲解，并提供范文和论文写作话题，指导千字左右课程论文的写作；用中文注释具有文化历史意义的背景知识以及早期文本中的特殊语言现象，帮助学习者深入理解作品，拓宽文化视野。

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Part I The Origin and Development of American Literature (Beginnings to 1860)

 Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

 The Autobiography (excerpt)

 Unit 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

 The American Scholar (excerpt)

 Unit 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

 Young Goodman Brown

 Unit 4 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

 The Tell-Tale Heart

 Unit 5 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

 Where I Lived， and What I Lived For

 Unit 6 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)

 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (excerpt)

 Unit 7 Herman Melville (1819–1891)

 Bartleby， the Scrivener

 Unit 8 19th Century American Poets

 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) / A Psalm of Life

 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) / Annabel Lee

 Walt Whitman (1819–1892) / Song of Myself (excerpt)

 Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) / Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Part II American Literature Between the Civil War and the FirstWorld War(1860–1914)

 Unit 9 Mark Twain (1835–1910)

 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

 Unit 10 Henry James (1843–1916)

 The Real Thing

 Unit 11 Kate Chopin (1851–1904)

 A Respectable Woman

 Unit 12 Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945)

 Sister Carrie (excerpt)

 Unit 13 Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)

 The Jungle (excerpt)

Part III American Literature Between the Two World Wars (1914–1945)

 Unit 14 Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953)

 Desire Under the Elms (excerpt)

 Unit 15 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

 Sweat

 Unit 16 F． Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

 The Great Gatsby (excerpt)

 Unit 17 William Faulkner (1897–1962)

 A Rose for Emily

 Unit 18 Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

 Soldier’s Home

 Unit 19 John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

 The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt)

 Unit 20 20th Century American Poets (I)

 Robert Frost (1874–1963) / The Road Not Taken

 Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) / Chicago

 Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

Part IV Modern and Contemporary American Literature(1945-Present)

Part V Writing Through Literature

Literary Terms