美國文學史（簡體書）

《美國文學史》尤其深廣的時空跨度，如此規模的英文版美國文學史論著是首次在國內出版。熟知美國學界的最新研究動態，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，文筆優雅，是國內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》以他的學術積累為依托，專為中國讀者而寫。既有對美國文學發展歷史的宏觀敘述，又有對具體作品的細致分析，內容豐富，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，更是一本英語專業師生不可或缺的好教材。

作者姓名：(美)童明相關作品：《美國文學史》《文化透視英語教程：3》《文化透視英語教程(Book four)》《文化透視英語教程(3～4)：教師手冊》

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