美国文学浪漫主义时期.pptxVIP

;Overview;Economically, the whole nation was experiencing an industrial transformation, which affected the rural as well as the urban life. Politically, democracy and equality became the ideal of the new nation, and the two-party system came into being. Culturally and literally, the nation felt an urge to have its own literary expression, to make known its new experience that other nations did not have: the early Puritan settlement, the confrontation with the Indians, the frontiersmens life, and the wild West.;Romanticism in America coincided with the period of national expansion and the di