内战前美国南方.ppt

Unit3 The Old South(3) Writing in the Old South The South After 1865 Writing in the Old South Souths literary failure in the ante-bellum period The enduring creative achievement of nineteenth-century American were produced,not in the Old South,but in the New England heartland of the Yankee. Allen Tate, The Professions of Letters in the South(1935) we had no Hawthorne,no Melville,no Emily Dickinson.We had William Gilmore Simms.We made it impossible for Poe to live south of Potomac. Allen Tate (1899 – 1979) an American poet, essayist, social commentator 作为南方作家团体“重农派” (Southern Agrarians)或“逃亡者派”(Fugitives)的成员，他支持南方回归农业经济以及昔日的文化理念。 Reasons for the literary failure George Tuckers explaination for Virginias backwordness in cultural matters(1816) the scattered plantations the abscence of cities a preoccupation with practical pursuits a preference for foreign authors Reasons for the literary failure Thomas Nelson Page argued in The Old South that the regions failure to produce a majory literature resulted from: (sociological explanation) non-urban,agricultural society abscence of publishing houses failure to develop a reading public Reasons for the literary failure (political explanation) the literary power of the Old South had been directed towards the worlds of politics and polemical controversy(political debate with the North) slavery led to vital problems to solve Arguments for the literary failure Thomas Ritchies letter to Charles Dickens A story told by Philip Pendleton Cooke Gilmore Simms lost his merits as a writer John Pendleton Kennedy abandoned litetature for a political career Edgar Allan Poe was compelled to abandon the South. William Gilmore Simms (1806 – 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century In recent decades