美国文学课考试复习资料.pdf

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1.AnartisticandintellectualmovementoriginatinginEuropeinthe

late18thcenturyandcharacterizedbyaheightenedinterestin

nature,emphasisontheindividual’se*pressionofemotionand

imagination,departurefromtheattitudesandformsofclassicism,

andrebellionagainstestablishedsocialrulesandconventions

2.FeaturesofAmericanRomanticism

ThereisAmericanPuritanismasaculturalheritagetoconsider.

AmericanRomanticauthorstendedmoretomoralize,toedifyrather

thanentertain.

AmericanRomanticismproducedanentirelynewe*periencealiento

Europeanculture.

Americanromanticismwasbothimitativeandindependent.

3.TheAmericanRenaissanceorNewEnglandRenaissanceisaperiodof

thegreatfloweringofAmericanliterature,fromthe1830sroughly

untiltheendoftheAmericanCivilWar.

4.icfablesofWashingtonIrving;

GothictalesofEdgarAllenPoe;

ThefrontieradventuresofJamesFennimoreCooper;

ThePsychologicalromancesofNathanialHawthorneandHerman

Melville

5.WilliamCullenBryant,HenryWadsworthLongfellowareFireside

PoetsorSchoolroomPoets.

WashingtonIrvingistheFatherofAmericanliterature.

JamesFennimoreCooperistheFatheroftheAmericannovel.

EdgarAllanPoeistheFatherofmodernshortstory.

RalphWaldoEmersonistheFatherofAmerican

Transcendentalism.

HenryDavidThoreauisafamouspracticaltranscendentalist.

EmilyDickinsonandWaltWhitmanarebridgepoetsbetween

th

AmericanRomanticismandthe20century.

6.WashingtonIrving华盛顿·欧文

FatherofAmericanliterature

thefirstprofessionalAmericanwriter

thefirstAmericanRomantic