这部《美国文学选读》，是为国内高等院校本科英语专业和其他相关专业的学生选编选注的，也可为其他对美国文学感兴趣的读者提供又一个选择。使用者和读者可根据课程安排和自己的兴趣，选用选读其中的一部分或大部分。
当前高等教育的英语语言文学教学内容中，美国文学的教学研究占了相当的分量，美国文学选读的版本也十分丰富，任何新起的选编选注工作，都不是一件容易的事情。本《美国文学选读》的选编者根据自己多年的教学和研究体会，从浩如烟海的美国文学宝库中选取素材。又考虑到使用对象的英语阅读理解能力，对一些必要的语言和文化背景内容做了简要的注释。我们的原则是，尽可能少用注释，以免伤损连贯阅读的愉悦，并相信读者能从上下文中自己揣摩出大部分的意思，同时也为选用这套读本的教师留下在自己研究基础上进行阐述发挥的余地。
本选集如果说还略有新意的话，那就是选编者希望能在一定程度上扩大中国读者和使用者对美国文学“经典”范围的认识。我们根据国内外美国文学研究的进展，在传统的始于17世纪的美国文学经典之前，增加了比欧洲移民传统要早两三千年的传统本土美国文学内容，还增加了当代美国族裔文学发展、特别是华裔美国文学(Chinese American literature)和本土美国文学(Native American literature)的内容，以期更为全面地反映以多元文化为特征的美国文学现象。另外，在传统经典作家及作品的选用上，我们也根据自己的认识作了一些调整。希望这部选读能大致反映美国文学发展的全貌，满足读者和使用者的部分要求。
张 冲
2007年10月
目 录
北美本土（印第安）文学——1860( From the Native Tradition to the 1860s)
Oral Literatures of the Native Americans
Ojibwa War Songs
Night Chant
Walam Olum (excerpt)
The Iroquois Creation Story
Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World
The Winnebago Trickster Cycle (excerpt)
John Smith
A Description of New England (excerpt)
William Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation (excerpt)
John Winthrop
A Model of Christian Charity (excerpt)
Anne Bradstreet
Selected Poems
The Flesh and the Spirit
Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (excerpt)
Philip Freneau
Selected Poems
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country
On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
James Fernimore Cooper
The Pioneers (excerpt)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature (excerpt)
The American Scholar (excerpt)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Selected Poems
A Psalm of Life
The Slave's Dream
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
John Greenleaf Whittier
Selected Poems
Ichabod ！
Snow-Bound : A Winter Idyl (excerpt)
Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Ligeia
Henry David Thoreau
Resistance to Civil Government (excerpt)
Walden (excerpt)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (excerpt)
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick (excerpt)
Wait Whitman
Leaves of Grass (excerpt)
When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd
Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
现实主义、自然主义、多样性：1860--1914( The American Realism and Naturalism: 1860--1914 )
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (excerpt)
Henry James
The Real Thing
Kate Chopin
The Awakening (excerpt)
Edith Wharton
The Eyes
Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (excerpt)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Man Against the Sky
Richard Cory
Stephen Crane
The Open Boat
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie(excerpt)
两次大战间的美国文学 1914--1945 :现代主义 ( American Literature
Between the wars: 1914--1945 )
Willa Cather
O Pioneers ! (excerpt)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall
The Investment
Jack London
The Call of the Wild (excerpt)
Sherwood Anderson
Mother
"Queer"
Carl Sandburg
Fog
Chicago
Wallace Stevens
Anecdote of the Jar
Sunday Morning
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
Ezra Pound
Canto IV
In a Station of the Metro
Marianne Moore
The Fish
What Are Years ?
Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night (excerpt)
Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas
Zora Neale Hurston
The Gilded Six-Bits
e. e. cummings
1（a
O Sweet Spontaneous
Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (excerpt)
John Dos Passos
The 42nd Parallel (excerpt)
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Weary Blues
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt)
现代美国文学 1945--2000 :从现代到后代（ American Literature since 1945 )
Richard Wright
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Charles Olson
The Kingfishers
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire (excerpt)
Bernard Malamud
The Magic Barrel
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man (excerpt)
Saul Bellow
Herzog (excerpt)
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman (excerpt)
Robert Lowell
Waking in the Blue
James Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man
Flannery O'Connor
Good Country People
Allen Ginsberg
Howl (excerpt)
America
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye (excerpt)
John Updike
Separating
Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn (excerpt)
Maxin Hong Kingston
Woman warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts(excerpt)
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