人物——头衔&作品
Anne Bradstreet:appstore无法下载软件 the first American woman writer
Benjamin Franklin ﹙the first person to pick out American dream and the 1st writer to write autobiography, the first lf-made American)
Washington Irving ( Father of American literature)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (the founder of transcendentalism)
Walt Whitman (the pioneer of American poem revolution)
Ezra Pound (the founder of imagism movement)
T.S. Eliot (Nobel Prize winner)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (spokesman of Jazz Age)
给父母的感恩信Ernest Hemingway (Nobel Prize winner, typical writer of lost generation)
William Faulkner (Nobel Prize winner)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Cullen Bryant
Thomas Paine :Common n
Thomas Jefferson :Declaration of Independence 哺乳期能吃什么水果
Washington Irving ：The Sketch Book , “Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of sleepy Hollow”
James Fenimore Cooper :The Leather-stocking Tales
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self Reliance , The Poet, The American scholar
Henry David Thoreau :Walden
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, Song of mylf ,O Captain, My Captain!
Emily Dickinson : I’m Nobody
Edgar Allan Poe: :唐僧是什么转世>拌土豆丝The Raven, Annabel Lee, To Helen
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville :Moby Dick
Henry James(p64): Daisy Miller, The Portrait of A Lady
Mark Twain(p75) :The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Hemingway once said that all modern American literature comes from the book written by Mark Twain )
Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio
Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage.
Theodore Dreir :Sister Carrie An American Tragedy The Trilogy of Desire
Frank Norris: The Octopus
Jack London: The Call of the Wild
Ezra Pound: The cantos In a Station of the Metro
T.S. Eliot :The Waste Land (William said that the publish of The Waste Land like an atom, destroy our world.)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“
Wallace Stevens: Anecdote of the Jar
Robert Frost: The road not taken Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening
F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradi:The Great Gatsby；Tender is the Night ；The Last tycoon
Ernest Hemingway:The Old Man and the Sea华擎bios;The sun also ris;A farewell to arms ;
For Whom the Bell Tolls Short story : A Clean Well-lighted Place
William Faulkner:(Yoknapatawhpa County) The Sound and the Fury; Light in August;
Abslom, Abslom；Go down, Mos
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men
Puritanism清教主义: origin, doctrines, relationship with American literature
Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the puritans. The Puritans were originally members of a division of the protestant church who wanted to purify their religious beliefs and practices. They accepted the doctrines of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. American literature in the 17th century mostly consisted of Puritan literature. Puritanism had an enduring influence on American literature. It had become, to some extent, so much a state of mind, so much a part of national cultural atmosphere, rather than a t of tenets.
Romanticism浪漫主义
An approach from ancient Greek: Plato A literary trend: Germany&England& France
Fields: literature, philosophy, art, religion etc.
粉丝汤怎么做好吃（背景）A.The spread of industrialismB.The sudden influx of immigration
C.The pioneers pushing the frontier further west/Economic boom
D.A promising new land with prevailed optimistic moods
（原因）A. Fast development of the new nation (flood of immigrants; pioneers pushing the frontier further west; industrialization; economic boom; a promising new land with prevailed optimistic moods)
B. Development of journalism (Some influential periodicals appeared, such as The Atlantic Monthly. They need more literary productions.)
C. Foreign influence (Review history of English literature.) (from the 18th century classicism to ntimentalism to Pre-Romanticism to Romanticism which can be divided in
to passive group and active group) (most influential British writers to American Romanticists-Walter Scott)
（特征）A. subjectivity: stressing emotion rather than reason
B. Stressing freedom, individuality, humanity
C. Idealism rather than materialism
D. clo relationship with nature, belief in supernatural elements
Transcendentalism先验主义
A broad, philosophical movement in New England during the Romantic era (peaking between 1835 and 1845). It stresd the role of divinity in nature and the individual ‘s intuition, and exalted feeling over reason.
电视剧爱情片（原因）foreign influences: 1) introduction of idealistic philosophy from Germany and France;
2) Oriental mysticism such as Hinduism and philosophy of the Chine Confucius and Mencius;
native influence: American Puritan tradition
（特征） of New England Transcendentalism （key point）
1 The Transcendentalists placed emphasis on spirit, or the Oversoul, as the most important thing in the univer.
