英美經典散文鑑賞

《英美經典散文鑑賞》是2010年武漢大學出版社出版的圖書。該書選用了英美文學各個時期具有代表性的名作以及能夠反映英語散文技巧的經典佳作，可作為英語專業本科英語散文選修課教材，也可作為英語文學愛好者的自學讀本。

基本介紹

• 書名：英美經典散文鑑賞
• 又名：Selected Canons of British and American Essays
• 出版社：武漢大學出版社; 第1版
• 出版時間：2010年9月1日

圖書信息

叢書名: 高等學校英語專業系列教材

平裝: 286頁

正文語種: 英語

開本: 16

ISBN: 9787307079892, 7307079895

條形碼: 9787307079892

尺寸: 23.8 x 17 x 1.6 cm

重量: 381 g

內容簡介

《英美經典散文鑑賞》內容簡介：散文作為文學的四大體裁之一，在文學史上占有重要地位。《英美經典散文鑑賞》分為英國散文和美國散文兩大部分，其中英國散文選擇了10位英國作家的代表作，美國散文選擇了6位美國作家的代表作。所選散文皆是名篇，每位作家均有兩篇作品入選，按作家分單元，每單元分為作者簡介、作者名言、名篇選讀、生詞注釋和思考題五個部分。

目錄

Unit 1 Francis Bacon(1561-1626)

I. Brief Introduction to the Author / 1

II. Selected Reading / 3

1. Of Studies / 3

2. Of Marriage and Single Life / 6

Unit2 Jonathan Swifl(1667-1745)

I . Brief Introduction to the Author / 9

II. Selected Reading/ 12

1. A Modest Proposal / 12

2. The Drapier's Letters( Letter I) / 22

Unit 3 Joseph Addison ( 1672-1719 )

I Brief Introduction to the Author / 32

II. Selected Reading / 34

1. The Royal Exchange / 34

2. The Cries of London / 39

Unit 4 Samuel Johnson(1709-1784 )

I Brief Introduction to the Author / 44

II Selected Reading / 46

1. To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield / 46

2. The Preface to Shakespeare(Excerpt) / 49

Unit 5 Charles Lamb ( 1775-1834 )

I. Brief Introduction to the Author / 54

II. Selected Reading / 57

1. Old China / 57

2. Poor Relation / 64

Unit 6 William Hazlitt(1778-1830)

I Brief Introduction to the Author / 72

II. Selected Reading / 74

1. On Going a Journey / 74

2. On Familiar Style / 86

Unit 7 Thomas Carlyle ( 1795-1881 )

I Brief Introduction to the Author / 94

II. Selected Reading / 96

1. Signs of the Times / 96

2. On History / 123

Unit 8 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

I . Brief Introduction to the Author / 135

II Selected Reading/ 137

1. Treatise on Parents and Children(Excerpt) / 137

2. The Sources of Idealism / 142

Unit 9 Bertrand Russell(1872-1970)

I Brief Introduction to the Author /147

II. Selected Reading / 149

1. What I Have Lived for / 149

2. How to Grow Old / 150

Unit 10 Winston Churchill(1874-1965)

I . Brief Introduction to the Author / 154

II. Selected Reading / 156

1. Their Finest Hour / 156

2. Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat / 168

Unit 11 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 )

I Brief Introduction to the Author/ 170

II Selected Reading/ 172

l. The Handsome and Deformed Leg / 172

2. Autobiography(Excerpt) / 175

Unit 12 Washington Irving ( 1783-1859 )

I. Brief Introduction to the Author / 182

II. Selected Reading/184

1. Westminster Abbey(Excerpt) / 184

2. The Author's Account of Himself / 191

Unit 13 Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)

I Brief Introduction to the Author / 194

II. Selected Reading/ 196

1. Self-Reliance / 196

2. The American Scholar / 223

Unit 14 Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)

I. Brief Introduction to the Author/-243

II . Selected Reading / 245

1. Love Your Life / 245

2. Solitude / 248

Unit 15 Helen Keller(1880-1968)

I Brief Introduction to the Author / 257

II. Selected Reading / 260

1. Three Days to See / 260

2. The Story of My Life( Chapter 1 ) / 271

Unit 16 E.lwyn Brooks White(1899-1985)

I Brief Introduction to the Author / 275

II. Selected Reading / 277

1. Once More to the Lake / 277

2. The Three New Yorks / 285