美国文学1st Part.ppt

American Literature A Birds-eye View of American Literature Part 1: Colonial America From the settlement of America in the early seventeenth century through the end of the eighteenth Major topic: American Puritanism Major figures: Jonathan Edwards 乔纳森·爱德华兹 Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林 Part 2: American Romanticism Time: covers the first half of the nineteenth century Background: Following the nations political independence, theres a rising America with its ideals of democracy equality, its industrialization, its westward expansion, and a variety of foreign influences such as Walter Scott Pre-Romanticism Washington Irving 华盛顿·欧文: inspiring the American romantic imagination eg: The Sketch Book 见闻札记 (Rip Van Winkle李伯大梦, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ) James Fenimore Cooper库柏: offering some fictional version of the American national experience of adventure into the wilderness of the American West eg: Leatherstocking Tales New England Transcendentalism/ American Renaissance(1836-1855) The culmination of American Romanticism Ralph Waldo Emerson爱默生: leading Transcendentalist, optimism Nature自然: the manifesto of American Transcendentalism The American Scholar美国学者: Americas Declaration of Intellectual Independence Henry David Thoreau梭罗: Walden Post-Romanticism Nathaniel Hawthorne 霍桑: a blackness of vision The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville梅尔维尔 : not optimistic, not hopeful Moby Dick 白鲸 Walt Whitman惠特曼: Leaves of Grass Post-Romanticism Emily Dickinson狄金森: completely original way of writing Edgar Allan Poe爱伦坡: the most contoversial misunderstood of American writers Harriet Beecher Stowe比彻: Uncle Toms Cabin Part 3: The Age of Realism The Civil War (1861-1865) brought the Romantic Period to an end. The Age of Realism came into existence. It goes against the lie of romanticism and sentimentalism, and expresses the concern for the commonplace and the low, offer