期末复习-美国文学简史汇总.ppt

1 Ａｍｅｒｉｃａｎ　Ｌｉｔｅｒａｔｕｒｅ 2 按照时期分类 一、殖民时期（约1607—1765） 二、启蒙时期和独立革命（1765—18世纪末） 三、浪漫主义时期（1865—1918） 四、现实主义时期（1865—1918） 五、现代主义时期（1918—1945） 六、当代文学（1945— ） 3 殖民地时期 独立革命至南北战争时期 南北战争到第一次世界大战 两次世界大战之间 第二次世界大战后 4 Brief Outline of American literature Colonial period (1607-1775)Anne BradstreetEdward Taylor Revolutionary period (1775-1783)Benjamin FranklinPhilip Freneau Democratic Period (1783-1802) Romanticism (1820-1861)Washington IrvingEdgar Allan PoeNathaniel Howthorne William Whitman* Transcendentalism * (New England Renaissance)Ralph Waldo EmersonFillip Thoreau Realism (1861-1914)Mark TwainHenry JamesNaturalism: Stephen CraneTheodore Dreiser The 1920sT.S. EliotWilliam FaulknerErnest Hemingway (Lost Generation)Imagism: Ezra Pound 5 Brief Outline of American literature The 1930sSteinbeckHarlem Renaissance(Black American literature)HughesWrightEllison American DramaEugene O’Neill Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams The Post-war SceneSaul BellowSalingerPoetry:Confessional PoetryBlack Mountain PoetsSan Francisco RenaissanceThe Beat GenerationThe New York Poets 6 Colonial Period (1607-1775) Chapter One 7 Historical background The first permanent English settlement in North America at James town, Virginia in 1607. In 1630 the puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Independent War (1776-1783); the foundation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic—the United States of America. 8 The early settlers Christopher Columbus discovered the American continent in 1492. Captain John Smith reached Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Puritans came to the New England area, by Mayflower in 1620. The first settlement was established in Plymouth in 1620. Massachusetts Bay Colony was established in 1630. 9 Puritanism in America Why did Puritans come to America?- to escape religious persecution - to reform the Church of England - to have an entirely new church  * Go