美国文学A Brief Survey.pptVIP

A Brief Survey of American Literature Periods in the history of American Literature I. The early American Literature (1620-1780s) A. 17th century Puritanism B. 18th century Enlightenment II. The Age of Romanticism (1780s-1875) A. Pre-romanticism(1780s-1830s)B. Post–romanticism 1.The flowering period (1830s-1860s) Transcendentalism 2. The declining period (1865-1875) III. The Age of Realism  (1875-1914) A. Realism in the mid and late 19th century B. Naturalism at the turn of the century  A. American Modernism between the two World Wars B. Post – Modernism since 1945 * * The 20th century American Literature (1914--)