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American Literature;Historical Background;American Puritanism;Brief Outline of American literature;Brief Outline of American literature;Colonial Period (1607-1775);Features of Colonial Poets;Chapter Two;writers and their works;Chapter Three;“ Romanticism Romanticism is associated with imagination, as contrasted with classicism, which is commonly associated with reason and restriction. The most profound and comprehensive idea of romanticism is the vision of a greater personal freedom for the individual. ;Washington Irving ;The Sketch Book;;2. James Fenimore Cooper;Works.;Evaluation; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life ;4. William Cullen Bryant ; “Thanatopsis”;Summit of Romanticism-Transcendentalism (American Renaissance); Transcendentalists 超验主义者 (1) Ralph Waldo Emerson 爱默生(founder and central figure of Transcendentalism ) Nature 《 论自然》 (2) Henry David Thoreau 梭罗 Walden 《瓦尔登湖》 ;Transcendentalism;High Romanticism (Late Romanticism);Edgar Allan Poe ;;Nathaniel Hawthorne;The Scarlet Letter;Herman Melville;Transitional Figures from Romanticism to Realism;Romantic Poets;Chapter 4The Age of Realism (1861-1914);Local Color Fiction;;O Henry;Henry James;Naturalism;Waterlillies Realism vs. Impressionism;Naturalism;Naturalism;Chapter 5 1920s;T S Eliot;Imagism;;;Lost Generation;The Southern Renaissance;SETTING—The South;Chapter 6 1930s;Black Literature; Beloved《宠儿》 The Bluest Eye《最蓝的眼睛》 Toni Morrison; Alice Walker(1944- );Everyday Use ;Chapter 6 Modern Drama ;Chapter 7 Postwar Liter