Chapter 1 The Literature of the Colorual and Puritan.America I.Historical Background II.Literary Background Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography Chapter 2 American Romanticism and Transcendentalism I.Historical Background II.Literary Background Unit 1 Waslungton Irving Rip Van Winkle Unit 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature Unit 3 Henry David Thoreau Walden Unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthome The Scarlet Letter Unit 5 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life Unit 6 Walt Whitman Song of Myself Unit 7 Emily Dickinson There Is Another Sky I'm Nobody! Chapter 3 American Realism and Naturalism I.Historical Background II.Literary Background Unit 1 Mark Twain The Million Pound Bank Note Unit 2 Henry James Daisy Miller Unit 3 O.Henry After Twenty Years Chapter 4 20th Century American Literature Pre-WWII I.Historical Background II.Literary Background Unit 1 Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on, a Snowy Evening Unit 2 Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro Unit 3 F.Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Unit 4 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury Unit 5 Ernest Henungway A Day's Wait Unit 6 Eugene O'Neill The Hairy Ape Chapter 5 20th Century American Literature Post -WWII I.Historical Background II.Literary Background Unit 1 John Cheever The Enormous Radio Unit 2 Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman, Unit 3 Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye Unit 4 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five Unit 5 Joseph Heller Catch-22 Chapter 6 Canadian Literature I.Historical Background II.Literary Background Unit 1 Margaret Laurence The Loons Unit 2 Alice Munro Runaway 参考文献