西北师范大学美国文学通史课件 Chapter 17 Colonial Period.ppt

Two represented writers John Dos Passos John Steinbeck 2.Major works: ▲《一九一九年》Nineteen Nineteen（1931）， ▲ 《赚大钱》The Big Money（1936） ▲《哥伦比亚大区》District of Columbia（1952 ）三部曲包括: △《一个年轻人的冒险》Adventures of a Young Man（1939） △ 《第一号》Number One（1943） △ 《伟大的计划》The Grand Design（1949） ▲ 《一个人的开始》One Man‘s Initiation（1920） ▲ 《三个士兵》Three Soldiers（1921） ▲ 《最好时光》The Best Times（1966）回忆录 Roosevelt and the New Deal We must be the great arsenal of democracy. 　　—— President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 　　In 1933 the new president, Franklin Roosevelt, brought an air of confidence and optimism that quickly rallied the people to the banner of his program, known as the New Deal. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, the president declared in his inaugural address to the nation. 　　In a certain sense, it is fair to say that the New Deal merely introduced types of social and economic reform familiar to many Europeans for more than a generation. Moreover, the New Deal represented the culmination of a long-range trend toward abandonment of laissez-faire capitalism, going back to the regulation of the railroads in the 1880s, and the flood of state and national reform legislation introduced in the Progressive era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. 　　. 1.Title While writing the novel at his home, 16250 Greenwood Lane, in what is now Monte Sereno, California, Steinbeck had unusual difficulty devising a title. The Grapes of Wrath, suggested by his wife, Carol Steinbeck, was deemed more suitable than anything the author could come up with. The title is a reference to some lyrics from The Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:His truth is marching on. These lyrics refer, in turn, to the biblical passage Revelation 14:19-2