1-History-of-American-Literature-美国文学史-英语简介.pptVIP

History of American Literature Introduction The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason and Revolution (1 lecture) American Romanticism and New England Literature (4 lectures) The Age of Realism and Naturalism (2 lectures) The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1920s ( 2 lectures ) The Age of Modernism: Literature in the 1930s (1 lecture) American Drama: Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller (1 lecture) Postwar Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop and Allen Ginsburg (1 lecture) Multiethnic Literature: Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Saul Bellow (2 lecture) Daily performance (50%) + final examination (50%) Daily performance: in-class behavior (15%), including previewing, taking notes, question-answering and presentation; paper, mid-term examination (30%); attendance (5%). Brief Introduction of the American Literature History 1. The Colonial Period (1607-End of the 18th C) 2. The Romantic Period (19th C-1865) 3. The Age of Realism (1865-1918) 4. The Modern Period (1918-1945) 5. The Postwar Period (1945- ) The Colonial Period (1607-End of the 18th C)  1) American Puritanism 2) Benjamin Franklin 3) Thomas Jeferson The Romantic Period (19th C-1865) Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper “New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance” Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature : “the manifesto of American Transcendentalism”; “The American Scholar”, rightly regarded as American’s “Declaration of Intellectual Independence” ) The Romantic Period (19th C-1865)  Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville The Age of Realism (1865-1918)  William Dean Howells Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; fathered modern American literature) Henry James (with his “international theme” and his psychological realism, now considered as one of the most literary figures coming out of the 19th century) The Age of Realism (1865-1918)  Literary Naturalism Stephen Crane (Maggie: A girl of the Streets,