《美国文学史》各节知识点指南.docVIP

《美国文学史》各章节知识点指南 时间：2011年2月 使用教材：《美国文学史》（第二版）常耀信著 Chapter 1 Colonial America ★ 1607 Jamestown, Virginia：the first permanent English settlement in America ★ 1620 Plymouth, Massachusetts: the second permanent English settlement in America ★ Captain John Smith: the first American writer writing in English ★ Anne Bradstreet: the first American woman poet Major work: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650) Contemplations (9) on P. 17 （熟悉这首诗歌） To My Dear and Loving Husband《致我亲爱的丈夫》 ★ Philis Wheatley: the first black woman poet in American literature ★ Edward Taylor: the most famous poet in the colonial period Huswifery on P. 19 （熟悉这首诗歌） ★ Roger Williams: The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644) Translated the Bible into the Indian tongue ★ John Winthrop: “Model of Christian Charity” （〈基督慈善之典范〉） The History of New England (two volumes, 1825, 1826) (〈新英格兰史〉) 1630 --- 1649 in diary ★ Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason ★ Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution The Wild Honeysuckle, The Indian Burying Ground, The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi ★ Charles Brockden Brown: the first important American novelist Wieland, Edgar Huntly, Ormond, Aurthur Mervyn Chapter 2 Edwards, Franklin, Crevecoeur the 18th century: Age of Reason and Enlightenment Jonathan Edwards: America’s first systematic philosopher The Freedom of the Will, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac 熟悉37页的引文 Hector St. John de Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer Chapter 3 American Romanticism, Irving, Cooper Washington Irving: the first American writer to win international acclaim The Sketch Book: Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Tales (五个故