《美国文学史及选读》共两册，根据美国文学历史的顺序结合作品选读编写而成，是一套"史"、"选"结合的教材。在历史部分，对美国文学史的每个阶段作了简明扼要的概述，而在作品选读部分则尽可能遴选了文学目前的重要作家和重要作品。教材内容丰富，观点正确，选文具有代表性，可作高校英语专业文学课程的课本或参考书，也是广大英美文学爱好者的理想读物。本书是册，内容涵盖殖民地时期至浪漫主义时期的美国文学。
Part I The Literature of Colonial America
Chapter 1 John Smith
Chapter 2 William Bradford and John Winthrop
Chapter 3 John Cotton and Roger Williams
Chapter 4 Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
Part II The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Chapter 5 Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Chapter 6 Thomas Paine
The American Crisis
Chapter 7 Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence
Chapter 8 Philip Freneau
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
To a Caty-Did
Part III The Literature of Romanticism
Chapter 9 Washington Irving
The Author’s Account of Himself
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Chapter 10 James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 11 William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
Chapter 12 Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
The Raven
Annabel Lee
The Fall of the House of Usher
Chapter 13 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Self-Reliance
Chapter 14 Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Chapter 15 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 16 Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 17 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Slave’s Dream
My Lost Youth
The Song of Hiawatha
