本教材分为英国文学和美国文学两部分，较为全面且扼要地介绍了各时期主要英美文学知识、社会背景、文学流派及其特点，各时期代表作家的创作思想、人物刻画和写作风格，以及不同文学体裁的语育特点及代表作品的主题思想等。 本教材注重课程思政元素的提炼及呈现，通过主题探究，以时代性素材激发学习者的学习兴趣，最终达到价值塑造、知识传授和能力培养的目的。 本教材积极实践新文科融合创新的理念，注重历史、哲学、政治、经济、社会、伦理及理、工、农、医等跨学科知识的融入，以全面拓展学习者的综合素质。

Part Ⅰ British Literature
Unit 1 Early and Medieval English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer：The Canterbury Tales
Unit 2 The English Renaissance
William Shakespeare：“Sonnet 18”；Othello
Unit 3 The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
John Donne：“Death，Be not Proud”；“Song”
Unit 4 The Eighteenth Century：the Enlightenment and Classicism
Daniel Defoe：Robinson Crusoe
Unit 5 Sentimentalism and Pre Romanticism in Poetry
William Blake：“The Sick Rose”；“London”
Robert Burns：“A Red，Red Rose”
Unit 6 Romanticism
William Wordsworth：“My Heart Leaps Up”
John Keats：“To Autumn”
Unit 7 Victorian Age（Ⅰ）：English Critical Realism
Charles Dickens：Oliver Twist
Unit 8 Victorian Age（Ⅱ）：Poets of the Mid and Late 19th Century
Robert Browning：“My Last Duchess”
Unit 9 Victorian Age（Ⅲ）：Thomas Hardy & Bernard Shaw
Thomas Hardy：Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Bernard Shaw：Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Unit 10 Some Women Novelists
Jane Austen：Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte：Jane Eyre
Unit 11 Modernism in Poetry
W.B. Yeats：“When You Are Old”
T.S. Eliot：“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Unit 12 Modernism in Fiction（Ⅰ）：Katherine Mansfield & Virginia Woolf
Katherine Mansfield：“The Garden Party”
Virginia Woolf：“The Mark on the Wall”；Mrs. Dalloway
Unit 13 Modernism in Fiction（Ⅱ）：James Joyce & D.H. Lawrence
James Joyce：“A Little Cloud”
D.H. Lawrence：Sons & Lovers
Unit 14 Poets after the Second World War(Contemporary Poets)
W.H. Auden：“As I Walked Out One Evening”
Philip Larkin：“Toads”
Unit 15 Novelists after the Second World War（Contemporary Novelists）
Doris Lessing：The Golden Notebook
Kazuo Ishiguro：An Artist of the Floating World
Unit 16 Despair and Absurdity in Contemporary English Drama
Samuel Beckett：Waiting for Godot
Part Ⅱ American Literature
Unit 17 Colonial America
Anne Bradstreet：“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Unit 18 American Romanticism
Washington Irving：“Rip Van Winkle”
Unit 19 New England Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson：Nature
Unit 20 Nathaniel Hawthorne & Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne：“The Minister’s Black Veil”；The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville：Moby Dick
Unit 21 Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe：“The Raven”；“The Fall of the House of Usher”
Unit 22 Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman：“Song of Myself”
Emily Dickinson：“Success”；“I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”
Unit 23 The Age of Realism
Mark Twain：The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Kate Chopin：“A Pair of Stockings”
Unit 24 American Naturalism
Stephen Crane：The Red Badge of Courage
Theodore Dreiser：Sister Carrie
Unit 25 Imagism
E.E. Cummings：“r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r”；[in Just-]
Unit 26 Modern Fiction（Ⅰ）
Sherwood Anderson：“Paper Pills”；
F. Scott Fitzgerald：The Great Gatsby
Unit 27 Modern Fiction（Ⅱ）
Ernest Hemingway：A Farewell to Arms；The Old Man and the Sea；
“A Clean，Well Lighted Place”；“Hills like White Elephants”
Unit 28 Modern Fiction（Ⅲ）
William Faulkner：“A Rose for Emily”
Unit 29 Contemporary Poets
Wallace Stevens：“The Emperor of Ice Cream”
Robert Frost：“The Road Not Taken”
Unit 30 American Drama
Tennessee Williams：A Streetcar Named Desire
Unit 31 Black American Literature
Toni Morrison：Beloved
Unit 32 Chinese American literature
Amy Tan：The Joy Luck Club