Lecture Two概要1.pptx

Lecture Two;contents;;Historical backdrop at home;;;;Historical backdrop abroad;The distinct features of American Romanticism;;;;;;;1.1. Washington Irving (1783--1859);;;;;;;A few striking features of his writings;works;;Synopsis ;;;;;;;1.2 James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851);Cooper’s greatness ;;;About The Pioneers;;;;;Cooper is a mythic writer;2. New England Transcendentalism;What is Transcendentalism?;The major features of New England Transcendentalism ;;;;Sources ;;;Significance ;2.1. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882);Emerson and Transcendentalism;;Nature in his eyes;The Poet in the eyes of Emerson;Aesthetics ;;His importance ;2.2. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862);About Thoreau;;Thoreau’s reputation as an author ;Walden;;;2.3. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864));About the author;Idea on evil;;;The Scarlet Letter ;;;;Hawthorne’s symbolism ;;2.4. Herman Melville (1819--1891);About the author;;;Melville’s Moby Dick;;;;;;;;Ishmael ;2.5. Walt Whitman (1819--1892);General idea on Whitman and Dickinson;Walt Whitman ;“the great acceptor”;;a child of his age;;;;;;a daring experimentalist;;;;;;;2.6. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886);General difference between Whitman and Dickinson;Dickinson’s poetry ;;;;;Original Dickinson;;;