review American__ Literature 美国文学复习提纲.ppt

American literature ---a general review Colonial period (1607—1765) Period of Independent War(1765—1800) The Age of Romanticism (1800—1865) The Age of Realism (1865—1918) American Modernism (1918—1945) Contemporary period (1945-- ) Pay attention to 1.the important literary terms of each period 2. representatives and masterpieces in each period Ⅰ.Literature of Colonial Period(1607-1765) Understand: 1.Terms: Puritanism: origin, 4 doctrines, relationship with American literature 2. writers: Anne Bradstreet: the first American woman writer II Revolutionary Period (1765—1800) Benjamin Franklin ﹙the first person to pick out American dream and the 1st writer to write autobiography, the first self-made American) Thomas Paine :Common sense Thomas Jefferson :Declaration of Independence Period of Romanticism Washington Irving ( Father of American literature) :The Sketch Book , “Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” James Fenimore Cooper :The Leather-stocking Tales Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William Cullen Bryant Ralph Waldo Emerson (the founder of transcendentalism): Nature, “Self Reliance” , The Poet, “The American scholar” Henry David Thoreau :Walden Walt Whitman (the pioneer of American poem revolution): “Leaves of Grass”, “Song of myself” “O, Captain! My Captain!” Emily Dickinson : “I’m Nobody” Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, “To Helen” Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville :Moby Dick Period of Romanticism Terms: Romanticism Transcendentalism Oversoul Free verse Puritanism Original sin The Age of Realism(p59) Henry James(p64): Daisy Miller, The Portrait of A Lady Mark Twain(p75) :The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Hemingway once said that all modern American literature comes from the book written by Mar