蒙雪梅、张扬主编的《北美文学选读》一书，“历史背景，文学史”和“文选”结合，全书共分为6章，美国文学各个部分按照文学史的先后顺序分成5个不同的时期，加拿大文学选了一章。书中简明介绍了美加文学从起源到20世纪的历史文化背景、文学史特点，选择代表作家和经典作品。每章包括作家生平简介、作品介绍、注释、名词解释、思考题等。本书线索清晰，希望为学生搭建美加文学框架，引导学生阅读原著，感受美加文学的人文精神和丰富的思想内涵，帮助学生开扩国际视野。 本书既可作为我国高等院校学生使用的通识课程教材，也可供广大北美文学爱好者阅读。

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
11.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
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