Leture2 The Romantic Period(1830-1865) American Literature 美国文学教学课件.ppt

The Romantic Period(1830-1865) American Romanticism Literary Form: Novels, Poetry and Prose. Literary Figures Pre-Romanticism Post-Romanticism 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. Pre-Romanticism Washington Irving 2) James Fenimore Cooper 3) William Cullen Bryant Post-Romanticism New England Transcendentalism The major features: 1. Emphasize spirit, or the Oversoul 2. Stressed the importance of individual 3. Nature as symbolic of the Spirit or God Literary Figures 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) Major Works: A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich 《纽约外史》 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Grayon, Gent《见闻札记》 “Rip Van Winkle” 《瑞普·凡·温克》 “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”《睡谷的传说》 2. Literary Place The first American writer to gain an international fame “Father of the American short stories” “The American Goldsmith” James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851) 1. Major Works “The Leatherstocking Series”《皮袜子故事集》 The Pioneers ,The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder and The Dee