华盛顿欧文英文简介讲义.ppt

American Romanticism(1810s-1860s) The?Romantic?Period?covers?the?first?half?of ?the?19th?century.?A?rising?America?with?its ?ideals?of?democracy?and?equality,?its?industrialization,?its?western?expansion,?and?a?variety?of?foreign?influences?such?as?Sir?Walter?Scott ?were?among?the?important?factors?which?made?literary?expansion?and?expression?not?only?possible?but?also?inevitable?in?the?period ?immediately?following?the?nation’s?political?independence.?Yet,? Romantics?frequently?shared?certain?general?characteristics:?moral?enthusiasm,?faith?in?value?of?individualism?and