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英美文学与电影

EnglishandAmerican

LiteratureMovies

Unit8

NATHANIELHAWTHORNE

（1804—1864）

Contents

lRelatedLiteraryTerms

lNathanielHawthorne

lTheScarletLetter

lEnglishMoviesAppreciation

lQuestionsforDiscussion

lForambitiousreader

RelatedLiteraryTerm

(相关文学术语)

lAmericanRomanticism

l(1)AmericanRomanticismisoneofthemost

importantperiodsinthehistoryofAmerican

literature.(2)Itwasarebellionagainstthe

objectivityofrationalism.Forromantics,the

feelings,intuitionsandemotionsweremore

importantthanreasonandcommonsense.They

emphasizedindividualism,placingtheindividual

againstthegroup.Theyaffirmedtheinnerlifeof

theself,andcherishedstronginterestinthe

past,thewild,theremote,themysteriousandthe

strange.Theystressedtheelement

“Americanness”intheirworks.

l(3)Itstartedwiththepublicationof

WashingtonIrving’sTheSketchBookand

endedwithWaltWhitman’sLeavesofGrass.

(4)Beingaperiodofthegreatfloweringof

Americanliterature,itisalsocalled“the

AmericanRenaissance.”(5)American

Romanticistsincludesuchliteraryfiguresas

WashingtonIrving,RalphWaldoEmerson,Henry

DavidThoreau,WilliamCullenBryant,Henry

WadsworthLongfellow,NathanielHawthorne,

EdgarAllenPoe,HermanMelville,WaltWhitman

andsomeothers.

lTranscendentalism(见教材）

NathanielHawthorne纳撒尼尔·霍桑

（1804—1864）

l(1)Heisthemostambivalentwriter,a

consummateromanticintheAmerican

literaturehistory.(2)Hehasan

unceasinginterestinthe“interiorof

theheart”ofman’sbeing.(3)Heholds

Calvinisticbeliefthathumanbeingare

basicallydepravedandcorrupted.

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