美国文学介绍.pptVIP

 I TOPIC: General Introduction to  American Literature II OBJECTIVES: A) The Colonial period (1607-1775) B) Period of Independent war (1775-1783) C) Romantic period (1815-1865) D) Realism period (1865-1914) E) Modernism period (1914-1945) ( Modern literature starts with poets ) F) Contemporary period (1945-the 21st century) G) the Nobel Prize winners in literature The Colonial period (1607-1775) ◆ Jamestown : first permanent settlement in America, Mayflower in 1620; Separatists and Puritans. ◆ Captain John Smith (the first American writer). New England Trials and The General History of Virginia Puritan clergymen and governors, the two essential characteristics of the early American literature: their religious subject and imitation of English literary traditions. Period of Independent War (1775-1783)  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)﹙the first person to pick out American dream and the 1st writer to write autobiography ﹚: Autobiography (1771-1790) Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Common Sense (常识) (1776) : “The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) : Declaration of Independence (1776) Notes: The triumph of the hard-fought Ameriman independence (1775-1783)seemed to many at a time a devine sign that America and her people were destined for greatness. Military victory fanned nationalistic hopes for a great new literature. Notes: The triumph of the hard-fought American independence (1775-1783) seemed to many at a time a divine sign that America and her people were destined for greatness. Military victory fanned nationalistic hopes for a great new literature. Period of Romanticism (1815-1865)  Washington Irving (1783-1859)( Father of American literature) : The Sketch Book (《随笔 集》或《见闻札记》—1819-1820, Rip Van Winkle from it) Irving discovered and helped satisfy the new nation’s sense of hist