英语专业美国文学复习资料。.doc

英语专业美国文学复习资料。.docThe History of American literature
The literature of Colonial American (1607-1765)
The literature of Reason and Revolution(1765一18 世纪末)
The literature of Romanticism ( 1800一1865)
The literature of Realism (1865一1918)
The literature of Modernism (1918 — 1945)
The contemporary literature (1945—Now)
Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography
That good fortune, when I reflected on it, which is frequently the case, has induced me something to say that were it left to my choice, I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end, only asking the advantage authors have of correcting in a second edition some faults of the first.
Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado
must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle (The Sketch Book)
“Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and the