美國文學史

前言

　　《美國文學史》是為中國的學者、學生寫的一部學術(shù)專著。2002年由南京譯林出版社出版之后，頗得讀者厚愛，增印多次。這一次我對原書做了全面修訂和勘校，又增添了不少新內(nèi)容。例如，為每一章編寫了詳盡的提問練習并提供參考書目（全部納入Appendix 1），增補了若干新的作者和作品，對前版已有的作品分析做了必要的補充。此增訂版是一部具有充分教材功能的專著，既可作為英語專業(yè)高年級本科生和研究生的教材，也可為學者的研究、自學者的學習提供參考，為所有對美國文學和文化有興趣的讀者提供對美國文學史的一個完整和準確的敘述。所謂

內(nèi)容概要

　　《美國文學史》尤其深廣的時空跨度，如此規(guī)模的英文版美國文學史論著是首次在國內(nèi)出版。熟知美國學界的最新研究動態(tài)，又有亞洲學者的獨特視角，同時兼顧史學研究和重點作品的賞析。見解獨到，文筆優(yōu)雅，是國內(nèi)學人不可多得的一部好書。童明教授在美國加州大學從事教學與研究多年。《美國文學史》以他的學術(shù)積累為依托，專為中國讀者而寫。既有對美國文學發(fā)展歷史的宏觀敘述，又有對具體作品的細致分析，內(nèi)容豐富，觀點新穎，評價中肯，文筆流暢，是一部讓人難以釋手的文學史著作，更是一本英語專業(yè)師生不可或缺的好教材。

作者簡介

童明：[美](筆名，原名劉軍)1992年獲美國麻省大學英美文學博士學位，現(xiàn)任美國加州州立大學洛杉磯分校英語系教授；曾擔任紐約聯(lián)合國總部譯員。撰寫的有關(guān)英美文學、歐洲文學、文學文化理論的論文散見于美國學術(shù)出版社的專著和學術(shù)刊物：近作有《美國文學史》(英文)。

書籍目錄

前言
Part 1 Early American Literature: Colonial Period to 1815
　1 The Literature of the New World
　2 The Literature of Colonial America: 1620—1763
　3 Literature and the American Revolution: 1764—1815
Part 2 American Romanticism: 1815—1865
　4 The Age of American Romanticism
　5 Early Romanticism
　6 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation
　7 Interrogating Innocence
　8 Whitman and Dickinson
　9 A House Divided: Writing against Slavery
Part 3 American Realism: 1865—1914
　10 The Age of Realism
　11 Regional and Local Color Writing
　12 Henry James and William Dean Howells
　13 Literary Naturalism
　14 Women Writing on the Woman Question
Part 4 American Modernism: 1914—1945
　15 Modernism in the American Grain
　16 The Evolution of Modernism
　17 American Modernism in Europe
　18 Modern Fiction between the Wars
　19 Modern American Poetry
　20 African American Literature and Modernism
Part 5 American Literature Diversified: From 1945 to the 21st
Century
　21 Literature Diversified under New Conditions
　22 American Theatre: Three Major Playwrights
　23 Major Fiction Writers: 1945 till 1960s
　24 Poetic Tendencies since 1945
　25 Fictional Inclinations since the 1960s
　26 Contemporary Multiethnic Literature
　27 Globalization of American Literature: Diasporic Writers
　
Selected Bibliography
Chronology of Historical Events
Index

章節(jié)摘錄

　　Life and works. At least in his own time, Coopers character was asimportant a factor in his fame as his writing was. His life merits our review.Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey, in 1789. His father, JudgeWilliam Cooper, was a wealthy merchant and landowner who also servedas a Congressman for two terms. Judge Cooper passed his Federalist beliefson to his son. Cooper also studied under a tutor who was anti-Puritan and aLoyalist. Cooper spent his youth in his fathers village Coopertown, whichwas not far from the border of the 18th century frontier. He went to Yale at13 where he studied with great interest Shakespeare and the major poets ofthe 18th century. Two years later he was dismissed from Yale because of hisrowdy behaviors. He was then sent to sea, serving first on a merchant ship asa deckhand and later as a midshipman in the navy. In 1811, he married SusanDeLancey of a Loyalist family. She kept him off the sea. From 1814 till 1817when the family estate was divided, he lived with his wife in Coopertown as acountry squire. Because of the "accident" described, he published Precautionin 1820. The following year he published The Spy, with the RevolutionaryWar as the backdrop. The Spy was soon translated into several languages andwas turned into a play. Suddenly Cooper was the most popular Americanwriter in Europe.　　Coopers third novel was The Pioneers （1823）, set in the Otsego Lakeregion during the decade after the Revolutionary War. The Pioneers startedthe Leather-stocking series consisting of five novels. In 1823, Cooper alsopublished The Pilot, the first of 11 sea novels. This was a sea story thatfeatured Long Tom Coffin and other memorable characters. Its blending oftechnical details and fiction to make a patriotic appeal anticipated HermanMelville and Joseph Conrad. Both, indeed, generously acknowledged theirindebtedness to Cooper.　　In 1826 Cooper took his family to Europe. That year and in the followingyear he met Scott and Lafayette. By 1833, he had visited France, Switzerland,Italy, Germany and England. While in Europe, he tried to explain America toEuropeans. When he returned to America, Cooper, in 1834, purchased OtsegoHall at Coopertown.

媒體關(guān)注與評論

　　童明教授所著《美國文學史》是一本具有深廣時空跨度的英文版美國文學史論著。作者熟知美國學界的最新研究動態(tài)，又有亞洲學者的獨特視角，同時兼顧史學研究和重點作品的賞析。見解獨特，文筆優(yōu)雅，是國內(nèi)學人不可多得的一部好書?！　『纹漭?，北京外國語大學教　　童明教授在美國加州州立大學從事教學與研究多年。《美國文學吏》以他的學術(shù)積累為依托，專為中國讀者而寫。其中既有對美國文學發(fā)展歷史的宏觀敘述，又有對具體作品的細致分析，內(nèi)容豐富，觀點新穎，評價中肯，文筆流暢，是一部讓人難以釋手的文學吏著作，更是一本英語專業(yè)師生不可或缺的好教材?！　⊥跏厝剩暇┐髮W教授

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　　“高等學校英語專業(yè)系列教材”是一套為英語專業(yè)高年級本科生和研究生編寫的教材，包括高級英語語言技能、英語專業(yè)知識和相關(guān)專業(yè)知識三個方面。本系列教材為開放式，涵蓋面廣，設(shè)計科學，注重時代性、知識性與實用性，有助于學習者在掌握英語技能的基礎(chǔ)上進一步擴充知識領(lǐng)域，培養(yǎng)應用能力，提高綜合素養(yǎng)?！　≡鲇啺娴摹睹绹膶W史》內(nèi)容更加充實　　既是學術(shù)專著又可做大學和研究院的教材　　跨文化的視角，多層次的敘述　　涵蓋美國自殖民時期至新世紀600年來的文學、哲學、文化思潮　　精辟解讀重要作家的經(jīng)典作品　　在歐美近代思潮的宏觀圖景內(nèi)論述美國文學的傳統(tǒng)風格及50年來的文學主流和勢脈　　新意卓見，皎然迭出　　英語行文流暢優(yōu)雅，莊諧并陳，引人人勝。

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