美国文学选读 全套课件.ppt

美国文学选读 Table of Contents Unit One The Early American Literature Chapter I The Seventeenth Century Literature Chapter II The Eighteenth Century Literature ?Benjamin Franklin Unit Two The Age of Romanticism Chapter I American Literature of Pre-Romanticism ?Washington Irving Chapter II American Literature of Post-Romanticism ?Ralph Waldo Emerson ?Edgar Allen Poe ?Nathaniel Hawthorne ?Walt Whitman ?Emily Dickinson Unit Three The Age of Realism and Naturalism Chapter I American Literature of the Middle and Late 19th Century ?Mark Twain Chapter II American Literature at the turn of the Century ?Theodore Dreiser ?Jack London Unit Four The Twentieth Century American Literature Chapter I Between the Two World Wars ?Robert Frost ?Ezra Pound ?Ernest Hemingway ?Francis Scott Fitzgerald ?John Steinbeck ?William Faulkner Chapter II American Literature Since 1945 ?Saul Bellow ?Ralph Ellison ?Joseph Heller Reference Chapter One The Seventeenth Century Puritanism in American Literature ?Puritans ?Puritanism ?Puritanism’s influence Puritans One division of English Protestant. They regarded the reformation of the church under Elizabeth as incomplete, and called for further purification from what they considered to be unscriptural and corrupt forms and ceremonies retained from the unreformed church. The 17th century American Puritans included two parts: Separatists and Massachusetts Bay Group Their Religious Doctrines: original sin, total depravity, predestination and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. They regarded themselves as chosen people of God. They embraced hardships, industry and frugality. They favored a disciplined, hard, somber, ascetic and harsh life. They opposed arts and pleasure. They suspect joy and laughter as symptoms of sin.