本套丛书遵循任务型语言教学的理念，融话题，交际功能和语言结构于一体，直接通过课堂教学让学生用英语完成各种真实的生活、学习、工作等任务，将课堂教学的目标真实化、任务化，从基础的听说读写能力到对西方社会文化的理解，全面培养学生运用英语的能力。任务驱动型教材是当前外语教学界热点，而且本套教材配备完善的网络系统，便于课堂教学。

Unit One 英美文学史简介
Unit Two 英国文艺复兴文学
Unit Three 新古典主义文学
Unit Four 英国浪漫主义文学
Unit Five 美国浪漫主义文学
Unit Six 英国现实主义文学
Unit Seven 美国现实主义文学
Unit Eight 英国现代文学
Unit Nine 美国现代文学
Unit Ten 后现代文学
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“任务驱动型研究生公共英语系列教材”是大连理工大学研究生院2007年教改基金立项资助项目。
任务驱动型教材旨在在教学设计过程中，以具体的任务为主线，使学生在完成任务的过程中探索、发现有关的知识技能。任务驱动型改革教材基于建构主义的教育思想，把“任务驱动”教学法有机结合在教材编写过程中，实现教学内容和教学方法的统一；以技能培养为本位，“理实一体化”，利于英语技能型人才培养。具体而言，本系列教材在编写过程中满足了以下几个条件：
（1）正确把握“任务驱动”本质内涵，科学合理设计“任务”。关键是根据教学内容，把“任务”设计得科学合理。在学习情境设计时，关键是创设实施“任务”真实情境的体验环境。在学习组织设计时，关键是突出以在教师帮助指导下的学生自主学习和协作学习为重点。
（2）更新教学观念，转变教学过程中的角色。任务驱动型教材的编写模式是一种新的教材编写模式，基于全新的教学观念。传统教材编写的基本特征是：“以知识为主线，教师为主体，学生为客体”，教师的“教”是立足点。而任务驱动型教材的编写模式具有“以任务为主线，教师为主导，学生为主体”的基本特征，立足点是学生的“学”，这一编写模式与现有的研究生公共英语教学模式的指导思想不谋而合。
（3）注意了理论与实践的紧密结合，把教学内容中的理论知识应用于实践范例，巧妙地设计成“任务”，把在传统教材编写中以理论知识体系为主的“明线”，变为“暗线”的知识链，把任务链设计为“明线”，任务链与知识链有机结合，把知识链这一“暗线”，合理地包含在任务链这一“明线”之中，通过科学合理的“任务”体系，实现了教材中的理论知识与运用理论知识的实践进程的紧密结合。

Increasingly,American writers，many of them．，directly inspired by Emerson， began to free themselves for European models．Transcendentalism is a formidable term describing the movement in American culture that energized much of the literature of this period．Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau stood at the center of this movement．Transcendentalism is based on the belief that the most fundamental truths about life and death can be reached only by going beyond the world of the senses．Nature played an important role in the Transcendentalist view．Transcendentalist writing places a strong emphasis on individualism．It is high-minded with moral earnestness and the desire to reform society and education．It also asserts a philosophy of individual as superior to tradition and society．
The optimism of the Transcendentalists was not shared by all the great writers of the time．There were those who saw the universe as a more confusing and difficult place．Nature，they thought，is ambiguous，not easy to read，interpret，and harmonize．Evil and suffering had to be accounted for and were not to be brushed airily aside．Life was，as it always had been and always would be，mysterious．Then，an important development in American writing began to take shape with the writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville．This was the idea of the romance．Romances were not love stories， but serious novels that used special techniques to communicate complex and subtle meanings．Irving，Cooper，Bryant，and Poe certainly exemplify many of the characteristics of the large movement called Romanticism．But it is with Hawthorne that an American writer began to make a critical distinction between a novel and a romance．This important distinction is useful in helping US to define iust what it is that makes an American narrative different from a European narrative．