Selected Readings in American Literature
Table of Contents
Introduction
Brief Outline of American Literature
Chapter I Colonial Period
Chapter ⅡEnlightenment and War of Independent period
Introduction
I. Brief Introduction of American Literature Course
II. How to define American Literature
1. American literature is the literature produced in American English by American citizens.
2. Basic qualities of American Writers:
independent
individualistic
critical
innovative
humorous
Brief Outline of American literature
1. Colonial period (1607-1775) Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor
2. Revolutionary period (1775-1783) Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine
Philip Freneau
3. Romanticism (1820-1861) Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne William Whitman * Transcendentalism * (New England Renaissance) Ralph Waldo Emerson Fillip Thoreau
4. The Age of Realism
(1861-1914) Mark Twain Henry James
5. American Naturalism
(1900-1914) Stephen Crane Theodore Dreiser
6. The 1920s . Eliot William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway (Lost Generation) Imagism: Ezra Pound
Brief Outline of American literature
7. The 1930s Steinbeck Harlem Renaissance (Black American literature) Hughes Wright Ellison
8. American Drama Eugene O’Neill
9. The Post-war Scene Saul Bellow Salinger Poetry: Confessional Poetry Black Mountain Poets San Francisco Renaissance The Beat Generation The New York Poets
Colonial Period (1607-1775)
Chapter One
I. Historical Introduction
1. people:
Indians were native inhabitants.
Now Americans are mainly immigrants mostly from Europe, esp. from England.
2. early history:
1) America was first discovered by Columbus at the end of the 15th century.
2) In 1607, Captain John Smith led some Englishmen across the ocean (Jamestown, Virginia)
3) In 1620, 102 passengers sailed on the ship Mayflower across the sea and settled on the new continent “New England”. (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
3. What is the Puritan? (p7-9)
Puritan is English protestant, one divisi
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