聊城大学外国语学院美国文学史与选读课件 Lecture25.pptVIP

Protest Novels in the 19th and 20th Century Protest Novels in General African American literature Most of women literature Realist novels Naturalist Novels Muckraking movement Lefty novels Black right movement Novels in the 1950s Black Humor novels Mark Twain (1835-1910) The father of American realist novels The Lincoln of American literature The western locales at his age Four Periods in his literary career Works of Humor (1860s-1870s) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) Social Critical Novels (1870s-1890s) The Man that Corrupted Handleyburg (1900) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Anti-Imperialist Works (1890s-) To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1910) Pessimistically Sentimental Works What is Man (1906) The Mysterious Stranger (1916) Mark Twain’s House Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Nature and civilization Slavery Social evils Initiation Freedom Huck as a Narrator Jim Frank Norris (1870-1902) One of the strangest rags-to-riches writer A great influence on Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis.? Family move to San Francisco in 1884 Knowledge of San Francisco developed in the years between 1891 and 1899 A disciple of Zola (portrayal of human beings as irrational animals driven by their own instincts) McTeague (1899) The Octopus (1901) Frank Norris and His Contribution “Norriss two mature novels, one personal and one social, imparted the assurance of an American fiction so largely commensurate with American circumstance as to liberate it from the casual and the occasional, in which it seemed lastingly trammelled. But the parallel between the two does not hold much farther. What Norris did, not merely what he dreamed of doing, was of vaster frame, and inclusive of imaginative intentions far beyond those of the only immediate contemporary to be matched with him, while it was of as fine and firm an intellectual quality, and of as intense and fusing an emotionality.”