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PAGE PAGE 1 PAGE PAGE 1 introduction The periods of American literature 1.The colonial period (约1607 - 1765) The main features Puritanism 2.The period of Enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800) Benjamin Franklin 3.The romantic period (1800 - 1865) (1)The early romanticism Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper (2)“New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)”Emerson Thoreau Whitman Dickinson Hawthorne Melville Allan Poe 4.The realistic period (1865 - 1914) (1)Midwestern Realism William Dean Howells (2)Cosmopolitan NovelistHenry James (3)Local ColorismMark Twain (4)NaturalismStephen Crane Jack London Theodore Dreise 5.The period of modernism (1914 - 1945) (1)Modern poetry: experiments in form (Imagism)Ezra Pound T.S.Eliot Robert Frost (2)Prose Writing: modern realism (the Lost Generation)F.Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner (3)Novels of Social AwarenessSinclair Lewis John Steinbeck Richard Wright (4)The Harlem RenaissanceLangston Hughes Zora Neals Hurston (5)The 20th Century American DramaEugene O’Neil Tennessee Williams Arthur Asher Mille 6.The Contemporary Literature (1945 -) American Poetry Since 1945: the Anti-tradition American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation. Nobel Prize winner 1930 Scinclair Lewis Main Street 1936 Eugene O’Neill The Hairy Ape 1938 Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth 1949 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury 1954 Earnest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises 1962 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 1976 Saul Bellow Herzog 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the Fool 1987 Joseph Brodsky Six Years Later 1993 Toni Morrison Beloved Lecture 2 American Literature in the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods(1607 -1800) 1.From 1607, American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in the mother country. Some of these early works reached the level of literature, as