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A Survey of American Literature 美国文学简史（常耀信版） 教师：滑彦立 Table of Contents Introduction Brief Outline of American Literature Chapter I Colonial Period Introduction I. Introduction of the course 1. Status: survey; history 2. Target: literary knowledge; method and ability of appreciation II. How to define American Literature 1. American literature is the literature produced in American English by American citizens. 2. Basic qualities of American Writers: independent individualistic critical innovative [‘in?uveitiv] humorous Brief Outline of American literature 1. Colonial period (1607-1775)Anne BradstreetEdward Taylor 2. Revolutionary period (1775-1783)Benjamin FranklinThomas Paine Philip Freneau 3. Romanticism (1820-1861)Washington IrvingEdgar Allan PoeNathaniel Hawthorne William Whitman* Transcendentalism * (New England Renaissance)Ralph Waldo EmersonFillip Thoreau Brief Outline of American literature 7. The 1930sSteinbeckHarlem Renaissance(Black American literature)HughesWrightEllison 8. American DramaEugene O’Neill Colonial Period (1607-1775) I. Historical Introduction 1. people: Indians were native inhabitants. Now Americans are mainly immigrants mostly from Europe, esp. from England. 2. early history: 1) America was first discovered by Columbus at the end of the 15th century. 2) In 1607, Captain John Smith led some Englishmen across the ocean (Jamestown, Virginia) 3) In 1620, 102 passengers sailed on the ship Mayflower across the sea and settled on the new continent “New England”. (Plymouth, Massachusetts) 3. What is the Puritan? (p7-9) Puritans（清教徒）: They are one division of English Protestant. They regarded the reformation of the church under Elizabeth as incomplete, and called for further purification. The 17th century American Puritans included two parts: Separatists and Massachusetts Bay Group. Their religious doctrines are origi