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Robert Spieler, the editor-in-chief of the last collectively compiled literary history of the same kind as this book, and his collaborators once declared: "Every generation should at least write a history of American literature, because every generation should explain the past with its own point of view. Before that, when the First World War just ended, the editor of Cambridge History of American Literature also expressed similar opinions." However, in fact, from/. No wonder the editor of this book had to admit that his work violated the original intention of "every generation should explain+with its own point of view" when he reprinted it in 1974.
When readers open this brand-new literary history, they will ask many questions, such as: | Why did the predictions made by the stubborn editor in 1948 fail to come true? Why is this book just published now? In order to find the correct answers to these questions, we must study the social history, political history and cultural history of the past 40 years and master the new methods of studying and evaluating American literature that emerged in this period. A series of historical events, such as the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the protest movement against the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the struggle for equal rights by ethnic minorities in American society, have changed many beautiful things. Americans' view of their own country changes their view of American literature and culture. In the 1960s and 1970s, the atmosphere caused by various pressures, conflicts and cultural value revaluation in American political and ideological fields was not conducive to "reinterpreting our literary history", but to some extent, it led to all kinds of exciting new critical views and expressions embodied in this book. However, this kind of literature now ...