The American Character
好书伴我成长Practical, Religious, Work Ethic,The American Dream. Freedom and liberty Purity
Faithfulness .optimism. Idealist .Practical and hardworking
Enthusiasm in and call for business investment
Enthusiasm in charity-work
Respect for Education
the puritan beliefs
Colonial American literature
The first American writer Captain John Smith
General features
Types of writing: diaries, histories, letters etc.
Content: rving either God or colonial expansion or both
Form: imitating English literary traditions
Anne Bradstreet
The first American female poet
A Puritan poet, "Tenth Mu"
"Contemplations"《沉思录》
The literature of reason and revolution
Benjamin Franklin
Jack of all trades, Spokesman of Enlightenment ,
Autobiography《自传》 Poor Richard's Almanac 《穷理查德历书》
Edwards and Franklin made the whole of a true puritan, an America
形容高兴的四字词语
Thomas Paine
American Crisis
The are the times that try men's souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the rvice of their country; but he that stands it now, derves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Common Sen 常识
七巧果
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence 1976/7/4
We hold the truths to be lf-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among the are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,--That to cure their Rights, Governments are instit
uted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Connt of the Governed ,--That whenever any Form of government becomes destructive of the Ends, it is the Rights of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall em most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Philip Freneau father of an poetry
American Romanticism
Washington Irving
father of American literature father of American short story
The sketch Book 见闻札记
Tales of a Traveller(first in installment in America, marked the beginning of American Romanticism)
Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow 睡谷的传说
James Fenimore Cooper
He created a myth about the formative period of the American nation. The American Walter Hollow. The first important American novelist.奈斯比特
The Pilot
The Leatherstocking Tales 皮袜子故事集
the Deers layer 杀鹿者
The last of the Mohicans 最后的莫西干人
Edgar Allen Poe
father of modern short story father of detective story father of psychoanalytic criticism
Annabel lee
The fall of the Hou of Usher
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found mylf, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy Hou of Usher.
Had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
responsible for bringing Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson = The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism 超验主义
He was a descendent of a long line of New England clergymen牧师【pastor】.
The American Scholar Spirit The Divinity School Address Reprentative Men English Traits
Nature
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and prerve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out there preachers of beauty, and light the univer with their admonishing smile.
Thoreau Walden
not only fully demonstrates Emersonian ideas of lf-reliance but also develops and tests Thoreau's own transcendental philosophy.
体型最小的猫Walden
a collection of nature essays
a great Transcendentalist work
a book about man, what he is, and what he should be and must be.
full of ideas expresd to persuade his neighbors out of their complacency
Political views: disapproved of slavery , condemn the government's conduct of the Mexican War.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter the Blithedale Romance , Moss from an Old Man, The Marble Faun
Herman Melvilie
Typee Mody Dick
The three great American authors of the last century who had no contemporary readers and yet became great in this century:
点缀的近义词Thoreau
id解锁Herman Melville
Emily Dickinson
The literature of realism
1861-1865 the civil war
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass epic poem Song of mylf
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