英语国家社会与文化入门 下册uint7 ppt英文版.ppt

Unit 7 America Literature Early Fiction The post-Revolutionary period. Washington Irving: History of New York, Tour on Prairies. James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy, the Leather-Stocking Tales (containing The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer) Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature Henry David Thoreau: Walden Power of Imagination Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of Red Death” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twice-Told Tales, The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (considered as American’s greatest novel) New Vision of America Walt Whitman: Leave of Grass is egotism (one main poem is called “Song of Myself”). Reform and Liberation Frederick Douglass Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Regionalism(地方主义) William Dean Howells: Atlantic magazine Mark Twain (real name Samuel Clemens) The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’ Court, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (his greatest book) Emily Dickinson A New Wave Henry James: The American, Portrait of a lady, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl. Emile Zola: The Rise of Silas Lapham Stephen Crane: Maggie, A Girl of the Street Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, The Red Badge of Courage Upton Sinclair: The Jungle Jack London: Call of the Wild Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence Kate Chopin: The Awakening Willa Cather: O Pioneers! W. E. B. Du Bois: Souls of Black Folk Rebellious Spirit Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio and Main Street Sinclair Lewis (the first American who won the Nobel Prize in 1930): Babbitt and Arrowsmith The Modernists and the Lost Generation Imagism Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land e.e.cumming Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams The Lost Generation F.Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway (also won the Nobel Prize): The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls. William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury(1929), As I Lay Dying(1930), Li