美国文学复习

Basic Qualities of American Literature(1) Independent、(2) Individualistic、(3) Critical、(4) Innovative、(5)Humorous、The Literary Scene in Colonial AmericaThe first American literature was neither American nor really literature、John SmithThe 1st American Writer CaptainHis most important work is The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624)Anne Bradstreet(1612—1672) Tenth MuseA Puritan poet, her poems mainly about religious experience, family life and early settler’s livesContemplations《沉思录》The Literature of Reason and RevolutionJonathan Edwards(1703-1758)Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodPersonal NarrativeBenjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's AlmanackThe Way to WealthThe AutobiographyPhilip Freneau“Father of American Poetry”“Poet of the American Revolution”The Wild Honey SuckleWashington Irving : the Father of American Short StoriesRip Van WinkleThe Legend of Sleepy HollowRomantic Individualism : James Fenimore CooperThe Leatherstocking Tales The Last of the MohicansSpokesman of Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature(l836) Essays (1841 )、 Essays: Second Series (1844)Henry David ThoreauWalden, 1854A Week on the Concord And Merrimac Rivers, 1849“Civil Disobedience”, 1849 WaldenNathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1850) “Young Goodman Brown”, Herman Melville Master of Philosophical AllegoryHis early works: sea adventures -- Typee(1846), Omoo(1847), Redburn(1849), Mardi(1849), White Jacket(1850), Moby-Dick (1851)、 His later works: Pierre (1852), Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853), Billy Budd (1924)Walt WhitmanWhitman is a father figure in American poetic history、Leaves of Grass — the first collection of truly modern poetry （Pre-modern）A forerunner in the history of Americ...