A Brief Outline of History of American Literature 美国文学史课件.pptVIP

A Brief Outline of History of American Literature I. Literature of Colonial America stretching roughly from early 17th century—the settlement of America—to the end of 18th century Puritanism: Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin II. The Romantic Period Stretching from the end of 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War Being a period of great flowering of American literature, it is also called “the American Renaissance” Early romantics: Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper Transcendentalism: 1840s, the summit of the Romantic period, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau Late/Post Romanticism: High Romantics, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickson, Edgar Allen Poe III. The Age of Realism (1865—1914) William Dean Howells, Henry James, Mark Twain Local Colorism: Mark Twain IV. American Naturalism The end of 19th century, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser V. The Modern Period The 1900—1940s (1945) The 1920s: 2nd renaissance in the history of American literature Poetry: imagism, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost Fiction: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson The 1930s: political realism, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck VI. The Post-war Period Poetry: Beat Generation: the 1st half of 1950s, Allen Ginsberg Black Mountain Poets: Charles Olson Confessional Poets: Sylvia Plath Fiction: Post-war Realism: John Updike, J. D. Salinger, Norman Mailer Post-Modern Fiction: 60s and 70s, Black Humor, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth Jewish Literature: Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer VII. American Drama Eugene O’Neil, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee VIII. Multi-ethnic Literature 1. African American Literature Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker 2. Asian American Literature: Maxine Hong Kingston Amy Tan * *