张颖编著的《新编美国文学史及选读(高等学校特色专业建设项目系列教材)》是面向英语专业高年级学生开设的专业基础课，在学科体系中居重要地位。既巩固提高学生的英语基础功，又能拓展和延伸其对深层语言和文化的解读和表达能力。《新编美国文学史及选读(高等学校特色专业建设项目系列教材)》促进学生对西方文化的了解，提高学生对文化差异的敏感性、宽容性。

上编 美国文学简史

Part One A Survey of American Literature

Chapter One Early American Literature and American Romanticism

SeCtion One Early American Literature

Section Two American Romanticism

Section Three Important Writers and Works in Early Romanticism

Section Four Important Writers and Works in Late Romanticism

Chapter Two American Realism and Naturalism

Section One American Realism

Section Two Representatives of Realism:Mark Twain and Henry James

Section Three American Naturalism

Section Four Representatives of Naturalism:Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser

Chapter Three American Literature between the Two World Wars

Section One Historical Background and Literary Scene

Section Two Imagism

Section Three Important Poets:T.S.Eliot and Robert Frost

Section Four The Lost Generation and Ernest Hemingway

Section Five The Jazz Age and F.Scott Fitzgerald

Section Six 1930s and John Steinbeck

Section Seven Southem Literature and William Faulkner

Chapter Four Contemporary American Literature

Section One Historical Background and Literary Scene

Section Two The Bcat Generation

Section Three Black Humour and Joseph Heller

Section Four Postmodern Fiction and Thomas Pynchon

Section Five Jewish Literature and Saul Bellow

Section Six New Realism in Contemporary Literature

Chapter Five African-American Literature and Chinese-American Literature

Section One African-American Literature

Section Two Representatives of African-American Literature:Wright,Ellison and Morrison

Section Three Chinese-American Literature

Section Four Representatives of Chinese-American Literature:Kingston and Tan

Chapter Six American Drama

Section Onc Introduction to American Drama

Section Two Important Dramatists:O'Neill,Williams and Miller

下编 美国文学选读

Part Two Selected Readings in American Literature

Chapter Seven American Fiction

Section One Introduction to Fiction

Section Two Fiction in Romantic Period

Section Three Fiction in Realist Period

Section Four Fiction between the Two World Wars

Section Five Contemporary American Fiction

Section Six Muhiethnic Fiction

Chapter Eight American Poetry

Section One Introduction to Poetry

Section Two Important Poets and Their Poems

Chapter Nine American Drama

Section OBe Introduction to Drama

Section Two Important Dramatists and Their Plays

Chapter Ten Practice in Literary Appreciation

Section One Short Stories

Section Two Poetry

Section Three Drama

Selected Bibliography