本套教材是在原教改拓展课程教材《英美文学史 及选读》基础上编写的一套适合我国高等 院校大学非英语专业学生使用的拓展课程英语教材。 《英美文学史及选读》这部“史”、“选”结合 的教材，包括“英国文学”和“美国文学”两部分； 每个部分按照文学史 的先后顺序分成不同的时期，简明介绍了英美文学从 古代到20世纪的历史文化、文学史特点， 代表作家和经典作品。每章包括作家生平简介、作品 介绍、原著选读、注释、名词解释、思考题 等。本套教材线索清晰，希望为学生搭建英美文学框 架，引导学生阅读原著，感受英美文学的人 文精神和丰富的思想内涵，帮助学生开扩视野，丰富 现象，体悟人性，品味人生。 本书由蒙雪梅、张扬主编。

PART ONE BRITISH LITERATURE Chapter 1 Early and Medieval English Literature I. Historical Background 1. The Making of England 2. The Anglo-Saxons Period 3. The Anglo-Norman Period II. Literature 1. Anglo-Saxon Literature 2. Medieval English Literature Chapter 2 Renaissance I. Historical Background 1. The Reformation 2. The Growth of Modern Science 3. The Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 4. The Renaissance II. Literature Chapter 3 The Period of English Bourgeois Revolution I. Historical Background 1. House of Studwart 2. The Civil War 3. Restoration 4. The Glorious Revolution II. Literature 1. Metaphysical Poets 2. Cavalier Poets Chapter 4 Eighteenth Century English Literature I. Historical Background 1. Augustan Age 2. Industrial Revolution 3. Great Changes in Social Life 4. Enlightenment II. Literature Chapter 5 Romanticism In England I. Historical Background 1. Negative Influences of Industrial Revolution 2. French Revolution II. Literature Chapter 6 English Literature of the Mid-and-Late-Nineteenth Century I. Historical Background The Victorian Age II. Literature 1. The Early Period of Victorian Age 2. The Mid-Victorian Period 3. The Late Victorian Age Period Chapter 7 English Literature of the Twentieth Century before World War II I. Historical Background 1. World War I 2. World War II II. Literature PART TWO AMERICAN LITERATURE Chapter 1 The Literature of the Colonial America I. Historical Background 1. The First American Farmers (5000 BC--2500 BC) 2. Columbian Discovery (AD 1492) 3. American Puritanism 4. The American Revolutionary War ( 1775--1783 ) II. Literature 1. The Native American and Their Culture 2. The Colonial Period 3. Symbolism Chapter 2 American Romanticism and Transcendentalism I. Historical Background 1. Independent Nation 2. Westward Expansion 3. Growth of Industrialization II. Literature 1. Early Romanticism 2. Late Romanticism Chapter 3 American Realism and American Naturalism I. Historical Background 1. The Civil War ( 1861--1865 ) 2. Westward Expansion 3. Public Education II. Literature 1. Ameriean Realism 2. American Naturalism Chapter 4 Twentieth Century American Literature before the War I. Historical Background 1. World War I (1914--1917) 2. The Jazz Age (the Roaring Twenties) 3. Great Depression 4. Rooseveh's New Deal 5. World War II ( 1939--1945 ) II. Literature 1. American Modernism 2. Imagist Movement 3. The Lost Generation 4. Faulkner's Stream of Consciousness 5. American Realism 参考文献