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The Mayflowers Arrival: providing the basis of the nations present form of democratic self-government and fundamental freedomsColonial Literature殖民文学---Jonathan Edwards (1703 –1758)重要的哲学神学家---Benjamin Franklin (1706 /1705 –1790) (practical values of thrift, hard work, piety，sobriety，education, community spirit, self-governing institutions) ；The Autobiography自传---J. Hector St. John de Crèvec?ur(1735 –1813):Letters from an American Farmer；Puritanism: predestination selected salvation命运选择救赎Romantic Literature浪漫文学---Philip Morin Freneau (1752 –1832): The Wild Honey Suckle (1786), the Indian Burying Ground---Washington Irving (1783 –1859):The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle---James Fenimore Cooper (1789 –1851): the Leatherstocking Tales (The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie)Transcendentalism超现实主义---Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 –1882) (the philosophy of Transcendentalism): Nature (1836), The American Scholar (1837), Essays: First Series (1841), Essays: Second Series (1844)---Henry David Thoreau (1817 –1862): Walden, Resistance to Civil Government ---Walt Whitman (1819 –1892): Leaves of Grass (Song of Myself, O Captain! My Captain!, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd)---Emily Dickinson (1830 –1886) (contains short lines, typically lack titles, and often use unusual rhyme, meter, capitalization, punctuation, idiosyncratic vocabulary and imagery. Many of her poems deal with themes of love, death and immortality.)---Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 –1864): short stories: Young Goodman Brown, The Ministers Black Veil; The Scarlet Letter (1850) The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), The Marble Faun (1860). ---Herman Melville (1819 –1891): Moby-Dick (1851)---Edgar Allan Poe (1809 –1849): The Raven (1845), The Fall of the House of UsherAmerican Realism (the Civil War –1890s)Background: The Civil War (1861-1865), Fast growing of the United States as an industrial nation. --- William Dean Howells (