美国文学简史复习资料

美国文学简史复习资料2025 年 12 月 23 日目录殖民时期及十八世纪美国文学美国浪漫主义早期新英格兰超验主义美国浪漫主义后期美国现实主义文学美国乡土文学美国现代诗歌美国现代小说美国南方文学美国现代戏剧美国黑人文学美国华裔文学殖民时期及十八世纪美国文学New England:Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, named by Captain John SmithPuritanismDoctrines of Puritanism :predestination(命运神定), original sin, total depravity (彻底得堕落), and limited atonement (有限得赎罪)from God’s gracePuritans left Europe for America in order to prove that they were God ’ s chosen people who would enjoy God’s blessings on earth and in Heaven、 They felt that they were exiles under the special grace of God to establish a theocracy in the New World 、 Style of writing:the style is fresh, simple and direct; the rhetoric is plain and honest;a touch of nobility often traceable to the direct influence of the BiblePuritans ’ way of Life :hard work, thrift, piety, and sobriety、In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter there is a good description of the Puritans’ life、 Main writersWilliam Bradfor d Of Plymouth Plantation 普利茅斯垦殖记Thomas Paine mon Sense 常识;American Crisis 美国危机;The Rights of Man 人权;The Age of Reason 理性时代Philip Freneau The Rising Glory of America 蒸蒸日上得美洲;The Wild Honeysuckle 野金银花Benjamin FranklinAutobiography 富兰克林自传Thomas JeffersonDraft the Declaration of Independence、美国浪漫主义早期RomanticismBackground of Romanticism:Economic boom and national optimism ;Favorable literary milieu: increasing number of magazines ;Foreign influences: the Romantic Movement in Europe、 Characteristics of Romanticism:A rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism、 Feelings, intuitions and emotions were more important for roman...