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1.American puritanism: a dominant factor in American life. It was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and literature.

The spirit :cool,sober(清醒)，

2.Edward Tylor : Huswifery

3.American Romaticism : initiative and independent

4.Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle, the legend of Sleepy Hollow

5.James Fenimore Cooper: 边境生活先驱Leatherstocking

6.Ralph Waldo Emerson(文化圣人) The American Scholar ————America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence. (文学独立宣言）

7.Henry David Thoreau:怪人Walden.

8.Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables.

Character:ambiguity

9.Herman Mewille: Redburn, Moby Dick（百科全书式的小说）

10.Edwards: Freedom of the Will, The Great Doctrine of original sin Defended , The Nature of True Virtue

11.Franklin :Poor Richard’s Almanac and Autobiography(唯一自学成才的诗人self-made)

1.American puritanism: a dominant factor in American life. It was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and literature.

The spirit :cool,sober(清醒)，

2.Edward Tylor : Huswifery

3.American Romaticism : initiative and independent

4.Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle, the legend of Sleepy Hollow

5.James Fenimore Cooper: 边境生活先驱Leatherstocking

6.Ralph Waldo Emerson(文化圣人) The American Scholar ————America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence. (文学独立宣言）

7.Henry David Thoreau:怪人Walden.

8.Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables.

Character:ambiguity

9.Herman Mewille: Redburn, Moby Dick（百科全书式的小说）

10.Edwards: Freedom of the Will, The Great Doctrine of original sin Defended , The Nature of True Virtue

11.Franklin :Poor Richard’s Almanac and Autobiography(唯一自学成才的诗人self-made)

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Both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were American poets in theme and technique . In fact ,a handy way of seeing modern American poetry is to find its sources in the two founts ,Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

Walt Whitman: <> . His <>is a repertory of his thought ,from a blade of “curling grass”the poet sees into the mystery of death and birth and concludes that “the smallest sprout shows there is really no death .”

Emily Dickinson(宗教，爱情，永恒): Dickinson differs from Whitman in a variety of ways ,.for one thing ,Whitman seems to keep his eye on society at large ,Dickinson explores the inner life of the individual ，whereas Whitman is “national ”in his outlook ,Dickinson is “regional”

By far the largest portion of Dickinson’s poetry concerns death and immortality .

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Edgar Allan Poe 侦探心理小说的鼻祖:<>is an immediate success and his most enduring works .

Chapter 8

the age of realism , Howells and James

William Dean Howells：《the rise of silas lapham >>

Henry James :main works <>

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贡献：“the international ”: the meeting of American and Europe, American innocence in contact and contrast with Europe decadence ,and its moral and psychological complications, for the American it was a process of progression from inexperience to experience ,from innocence to knowledge and maturity . Chapter 9 Local Colorism . Mark Twain

Mark Twain文学贡献：将方言引入创作

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自传小说《life on the Mississippi》

儿童小说《the adventure of Tom Sawyer》

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Chapter 10

Stephen Crane :<> <> 《the open boat》

Frank Norris :<> <>

Theodore Dreiser:欲望三部曲《the Financier》<>

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Chapter 12

T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land (five parts:The Burial of the Dead;A Game of Chess;The Fir e Sermon;Death by Water;What the Thunder Said) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock Lost Generation:Eliot ,Hemingway and Faulkner

Chapter 13

Robert Frost:be invited to read his poem at President Kennedy' inauguration North of B oston ;The Road Not Taken

Chapter 14

F.Scott Fitzgerald:lived in the midst of the roaring twenties;the Jazz Age;The Beautiful and The Damned ,The Great Gatsby

Ernest Hemingway:simple words,a Hemingway hero appears on the scene to learn live in grace under pressure .The Torrents of Spring ;The Sun Also Rises;A Farewell to Arms;The old and the Sea Icebergue Style

Chapter 15