美国文学史及选读复习重点

Captain John Smith (first American writer).

Anne Bradstreet；The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America （colonists living）

Edward Taylor(the best puritan poet)

John Cotton ”the Patriarch of New England” teacher spiritual leader Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography Poor Richard’s Almanack Thomas Jefferson：

Political Career Thoughts The Declaration of Independence we hold truth to be self-evidence

Philip Freneau“Father of American Poetry” The Wild Honey Suckle American Romanticism optimism and hope

Nationalism Washington Irving“Father of American Literature short story”The first “Pure Writer” A History of New York The Sketch Book marked the beginning of American Romanticism! “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”Rip Van Winkle

James Fenimore Cooper Father of American sea and frontier novels Leather stocking Tales The Last of the Mohicans The Pioneers The Prairie The Pathfinder The Deerslayer

Edgar Allan Poe father of detective story and horror fiction Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque “MS. Found in a Bottle” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”

“The Fall of the House of Usher”“The Masque of the Red Death”“The

Cask of Amontillado”效果论art for arts sake

诗歌The Raven 《乌鸦》

Annabel Lee 《安娜贝尔•李》

To Helen 《致海伦》

•Henry Wadsworth Longfellow be honored by having his bust placed in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey.the first American poet to write the narrative poems.

•Works:

•Voices of the Night《夜吟》

•Ballads and Other Poems《民谣及其他》

• A Psalm of Life《人生礼赞》

•The Slave’s Dream《奴隶的梦》

•The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls《潮起潮落》

•My Lost Youth《逝去的青春》

•The Song of Hiawatha《海华沙之歌》

•The Courtship of Miles Standish《迈尔斯斯坦迪什的求婚》•

•New England Transcendentalism summit of American •Romanticism.Leaders: Emerson and Thoreau“The Universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.”

•Ralph Waldo Emerson New England Transcendentalism. •Nature (论自然) American Scholar （美国学者）Divinity School Address （神学院演说）Representative Men 代表English Traits（英国人的特征）

•The Over-Soul (论超灵) Self-Reliance（论自立）

•Henry David Thoreau Walden, or Life in the Woods Civil Disobedience

•Transcendentalism Emerson Thoreau •Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice-Told Tales Mosses from an Old Manse The Scarlet Letter

•The House of the Seven Gables 1851

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•The Blithedale Romance 1852

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•The Marble Faun 1860

g)“Young Goodman Brown”(Mosses from an Old Manse)

g)“The Minister’s Black Veil”（Twice-Told Tales ）

g)“Dr. Rappacini’s Daughter” (Mosses from an Old Manse)