美国文学分期及作家作品2.pptVIP

美国文学选读 Selected Readings in American Literature 陆道夫 主讲 Literature in the Colonial Period (1607-1820) Literature in the Colonial Period 1. General features: Of Humble origin; documentary; personal 2. Literary Forms: histories, letters, journals, sermons, narratives, poetry, novels, etc. Literature in the Colonial Period Four Representative Figures (in prose) Jonathan Edwards and his sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Benjamin Franklin and The Autobiography (1791,1818) and Poor Richard’s Almanac ﹙the first person to pick out American dream and the 1st writer to write autobiography ) Thomas Paine and his political essays: Common Sense and American Crisis Thomas Jefferson :Declaration of Independence Period of Romanticism Washington Irving ( Father of American literature) :The Sketch Book James Fenimore Cooper :The Leather-stocking Tales Ralph Waldo Emerson (the founder of transcendentalism): Nature, Self Reliance Henry David Thoreau :Walden Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :The Song of Hiawatha Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville :Mody Dick Period of Romanticism Walt Whitman (the pioneer of American poem revolutionary): Leaves of Grass, Song of myself Emily Dickinson :I’m Nobody Edgar Allan Poe (Father of detective story, The first American literary theorist): The Fall of The House of Usher; The Purloined Letter Important terms in Modernism Period Transcendentalism over soul Free verse Puritanism Original sin Realism period Stowe :The Uncle Tom’s Cabin Chopin :The Awakening Howells :The Rise of Silas Lapman Mark Twain (the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) :The Gilded Age; Innocents Abroad ;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Hemingway once said that all modern American literature comes from the book written by Mark Twain ) Henry James: The Portrait of a Ladys; The Ambassadors Stephen Crane: Maggie: a Girl of the Streets. Theodore Dreiser :Sister Carrie