美国文学the American Romanticism 1课件.pptVIP

American Literature;The American Romanticism (I) ;I. What is Romanticism;;A. Washington Irving (1783-1859 );His fame;His Works;The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent ;;;B. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) ;In his life Cooper wrote over thirty novels which can be divided into frontier novels, detective novels and reference novels. He considered The Pathfinder 探路人(1840) and The Deerslayer杀鹿者 (1841) his best works. The unifying thread of the five novels collectively known as the Leather-Stocking Tales皮裹腿故事集 is the life of Natty Bumppo, Cooper’s finest achievement. They constitute a vast prose epic with the North American continent as setting, Indian tribes as Characters, and great wars and westward migration as social background. The novels bring to life frontier America from 1740 to 1804. The Pioneers拓荒者(1823): Natty Bumppo first appears as a seasoned scout in advancing years, with the dying Chingachgook, the old Indian chief and his faithful comrade, as the eastern forest frontier begins to disappear and Chingachgook dies.;The Last of the Mohicans最后的莫希干人(1826): An adventure of the French and Indian Wars in the Lake George county. The Prairie大草原(1827): Set in the new frontier where the Leatherstocking dies. The Pathfinder(1840): Continuing the same border warfare in the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario county. The Deerslayer(1841): Early adventures with the hostile Hurons on Lake Otsego, NY.;Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803 - 1882);It is a 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought. The overall movement shared similar philosophies. These philosophies rested on the Lockian concept of Idealism and Kants belief in intuition. Emerson defined it as “idealism” simply. In reality it was far more complex collection of beliefs: that the spark of divinity lies within man; that everything in the world is a microcosm of existence; that the individual soul is identical to the world