2.0 (copy)American Romanticism and New England Literature课件.ppt

Chapter Two;;牟逮陶际滴赠猛福昼芯噬宇月磅什蔡览驳关薄坍泞桂昧卓患府龚技猜迫矽2.0 (copy)American Romanticism and New England Literature课件2.0 (copy)American Romanticism and New England Literature课件;A General View on American Romanticism; Background --rapid development in America;Background:Ideology;Background– Puritanism;Background– foreign influences;Characteristics in Romanticism;Summit of Romanticism-Transcendentalism 超验主义;Transcendentalism 超验主义;Spirits of Transcedentalism;Dark Romantics;The Dark Romantics;Romantic Poets;Washington Irving (1783-1859) ; Irving’s Major Works ;Irving’s Major Works;The Tales of a Traveler 《游者谈》 in Germany Charles the Second 《查理二世》 in Paris, France;Irving’s Major Works;Irving’s Major Works;Irving’s contribution;Plot: Beginning– Middle-- End;The stranger (p. 25): “His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion—a cloth jerkin strapped round the waist—several pair of breeches, the outer one of ample volume, decorated with rows of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees.” ?;J.F. Cooper (1789-1851) ;Cooper’s Major Literary Works ;The Leatherstocking Tales 《皮袜子故事集》 ;The American Novel; Central character: Natty Bumppo (several names for same character: Hawk-eye, the Pathfinder, the Deerslayer, Leatherstocking) (a typical frontier man: honest, simple, innocent, generous) (represents brotherhood of man, nature and freedom);Duncan Cora Alice;Theme: modern civilization advancing on the wilderness and the contradiction between them(wilderness and civilization);Nathaniel Hawthorn (霍桑) (1804—1864); Hawthorne’s Major Works ;Hawthorne’s Major Works;Hawthorne’s point of view;Hawthorne’s point of view;Hawthorne’s point of view;Hawthorne’s point of view;Hawthorne’s Writing Style;Hawthorne’s Writing Style;Background knowledge;The Scarlet Letter 《红字》;Major characters in The Scarlet Letter;Chillingworth; He is interested in revenge---after Dimmesda