美国文学整理.docx

introduction
The periods of American literature
colonial period (约1607 - 1765)
The main features
Puritanism
period of Enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800)
Benjamin Franklin
romantic period (1800 - 1865)
(1)The early romanticism -------------------------Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper
(2)“New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)”-----------Emerson Thoreau Whitman Dickinson Hawthorne Melville Allan Poe
realistic period (1865 - 1914)
(1)Midwestern Realism --------------William Dean Howells
(2)Cosmopolitan Novelist--------------Henry James
(3)Local Colorism-------------Mark Twain
(4)Naturalism-------------Stephen Crane Jack London Theodore Dreise
period of modernism (1914 - 1945)
(1)Modern poetry: experiments in form (Imagism)----Ezra Pound Robert Frost
(2)Prose Writing: modern realism (the Lost Generation)---- Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner
(3)Novels of Social Awareness---------Sinclair Lewis John Steinbeck Richard Wright
(4)The Harlem Renaissance-------Langston Hughes Zora Neals Hurston
(5)The 20th Century American Drama---Eugene O’Neil Tennessee Williams Arthur Asher Mille
Contemporary Literature (1945 -)
American Poetry Since 1945: the Anti-tradition
American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation.
Nobel Prize winner
1930 Scinclair Lewis Main Street
1936 Eugene O’Neill The Hairy Ape
1938 Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth
1949 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
1954 Earnest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
1962 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
1976 Saul Bellow Herzog
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the Fool
1987 Joseph Brodsky Six Years Later
1993 Toni Morrison Beloved

Lecture 2 American Literature in the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods(1607 -1800)
1607, American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in the mothe