美国文学1st Part.ppt

American Literature A Birds-eye View of American Literature Part 1: Colonial America From the settlement of America in the early seventeenth century through the end of the eighteenth Major topic: American Puritanism Major figures: Jonathan Edwards 乔纳森·爱德华兹 Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林 Part 2: American Romanticism Time: covers the first half of the nineteenth century Background: Following the nations political independence, theres a rising America with its ideals of democracy equality, its industrialization, its westward expansion, and a variety of foreign influences such as Walter