美国文学简史笔记常耀信
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美国文学简史笔记（常耀信）
Conci History of American Literature
无微不至What is literature?
Literature is language artistically ud to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages。
Chapter 1 Colonial Period
I. Background: Puritanism
1. features of Puritanism学校的简笔画
（1) Predestination: God decided everything before things occurred。
(2) Original sin: Human beings were born to be evil, and this original sin can be pasd down from generation to generation.
(3） Total depravity
世界上最小的兔子(4） Limited atonement: Only the “elect” can be saved.
2. Influence
(1） A group of good qualities – hard work, thrift， piety， sobriety （rious and thoughtful) influenced American literature.
（2) It led to the everlasting myth。 All literature is bad on a myth – garden of Eden.
庭成语(3) Symbolism: the American puritan’s metaphorical mode of perception was chiefly instrumental in calling into being a literary symbolism which is distinctly American。
(4) With regard to their writing, the style is fresh, simple and direct; the rhetoric is plain and honest， not without a touch of nobility often traceable to the direct influence of the Bible.
II。 Overview of the literature
1。 types of writing
diaries, histories， journals， letters， travel books, autobiographies/biographies， rmons
2. writers of colonial period
(1） Anne Bradstreet
(2） Edward Taylor
（3) Roger Williams
（4） John Woolman
（5） Thomas Paine
(6） Philip Freneau
III。 Jonathan Edwards
1。 life
2. works
(1） The Freedom of the Will
（2） The Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended
(3） The Nature of True Virtue
3。 ideas – pioneer of transcendentalism
（1） The spirit of revivalism
(2） Regeneration of man
(3) God’s prence
(4） Puritan idealism
IV。 Benjamin Franklin
1。 life
2. works
(1） Poor Richard’s Almanac
(2） Autobiography
3。 contribution
（1） He helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital and the American Philosophical Society。
(2) He was called “the new Prometheus who had stolen fire （electricity in this ca） from heaven”。
(3) Everything ems to meet in this one man – “Jack of all trades"。 Herman Melville thus described him “master of each and mastered by none”.
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Chapter 2 American Romanticism
Section 1 Early Romantic Period
What is Romanticism?
l An approach from ancient Greek： Plato
l A literary trend: 18c in Britain (1798～1832）
l Schlegel Bros。
I. Preview: Characteristics of romanticism
1。 subjectivity
(1） feeling and emotions, finding truth
(2） emphasis on imagination
(3） emphasis on individualism – personal freedom， no hero worship， natural goodness of human beings
2. back to medieval, esp medieval folk literature
(1） unrestrained by classical rules
（2) full of imagination
创业流程(3） colloquial language
人事代理合同（4） freedom of imagination
(5） genuine in feelings： answer their call for classics
3. back to nature
nature is “breathing living thing” (Rousau)
II。 American Romanticism
1. Background
（1） Political background and economic development
(2) Romantic movement in European countries
Derivative – foreign influence
2。 features
(1) American romanticism was in esnce the expression of “a real new experience and contained “an alien quality” for the simple reason that “the spirit of the place” was rad
菠菜怎么煮ically new and alien.
