美国文学Leture2课件.pptVIP

The Romantic Period(1830-1865);1. American Romanticism 1) Reasons of American Romanticism A. Europeans came to the New world with Romantic ideas; B. Western Expansion encourages people to dream and to imagine the success of tomorrow. ;2) European Romanticism vs. American Romanticism A. The focus of European Romanticism a. Imagination b. Subjectivity c. Freedom of thought d. Idealization of nature e. Individualism ;B. The focus of American Romanticism a. Puritanism b. New Experience c. Equality and Democracy d. Transcendentalism(超验主义) --- any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive(直觉的) and spiritual above the empirical（经验的) and material.;Washington Irving 2) James Fenimore Cooper 3) William Cullen Bryant ;Post-Romanticism;Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Harriet Beecher Stowe;Washington Irving(1783-1859) ;“Rip Van Winkle” 《瑞普·凡·温克》 “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”《睡谷的传说》;James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851) ;Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882) ;Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862) ;Herman Melville(1819 - 1891);Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811-1896)