美国文学讲座.ppt

American Literature;Historical Overview;Themes;American Puritanism;Colonial Literature (1607-1765);Colonial Literature (1607-1765);Non-puritan Themes: Civil and religious freedom; American shaking off the fetters of British rule Literary Forms: Diary, history, journal, letter, travel book, sermon, etc Roger Williams(1603-1683) ‘The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience’ (1644): fight for freedom and democracy John Woolman (1720-1772) ‘Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes’ , ‘A Plea for the Poor’, ‘Journal’: Quaker, preacher of inward communication with God, the rights of all men, abolition of slavery system ;Colonial Literature (1607-1765);The EnlightenmentAmerica Independence;Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758);Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790);Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790);American Romanticism;Washington Irving (1783-1859);It has been the lot of the unfortunate aborigines of America, in the early periods of colonization, to be doubly wronged by the white men. They have been dispossessed of their hereditary possessions by mercenary and frequently wanton warfare, and their characters have been traduced by bigoted and interested writers. ----Traits of Indian Character ;James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851);The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first occupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent. They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them. There is sufficient historical truth in the picture to justify the use that has been made of it. ------ The Last of the Mohicans ;American Transcendentalism;Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); ;Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862);Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, o