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Chapter 1 Colonial America
★1607 Jamestown, Virginia：the first permanent English settlement in America
★1620 Plymouth, Massachusetts: the second permanent English settlement in America
★Captain John Smith: the first American writer writing in English
★Anne Bradstreet: the first American woman poet
Major work: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650)
Contemplations (9) on P. 17 （熟悉这首诗歌）
To My Dear and Loving Husband《致我亲爱的丈夫》
★Philis Wheatley: the first black woman poet in American literature
★Edward Taylor: the most famous poet in the colonial period
Huswifery on P. 19 （熟悉这首诗歌）
★Roger Williams: The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644)
Translated the Bible into the Indian tongue
★John Winthrop: ―Model of Christian Charity‖（〈基督慈善之典范〉）
The History of New England (two volumes, 1825, 1826)
(〈新英格兰史〉) 1630 --- 1649 in diary
★Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason ★Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution
The Wild Honeysuckle, The Indian Burying Ground, The Dying Indian: Tomo
Chequi
★Charles Brockden Brown: the first important American novelist
Wieland, Edgar Huntly, Ormond, Aurthur Mervyn
Chapter 2 Edwards, Franklin, Crevecoeur
★the 18th century: Age of Reason and Enlightenment
★Jonathan Edwards: America’s first systematic philosopher
The Freedom of the Will, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
★Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac
熟悉37页的引文
★Hector St. John de Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer
Chapter 3 American Romanticism, Irving, Cooper
★Washington Irving: the first American writer to win international acclaim
The Sketch Book: Rip V an Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
★James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Tales (五个故事的题目)
Natty Bumpo (人物形象)
Chapter 4 New England Transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau ★Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature (the Bible and manifesto of New England Transcendentalism)
The American Scholar (America’s Declaration of Intellectual
Independence)
★Henry David Thoreau: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Chapter 5 Hawthorne, Melville
★Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Twice-Told Tales, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, Young Goodman Brown
★Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White Jacket, Pierre
Chapter 6 Whitman, Dickinson
★Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass; free verse; Song of Myself
★Emily Dickinson: Of the 1775 poems, only 7 poems were published in her lifetime.
熟悉教材中98至102页所选的诗歌
Chapter 7 Edgar Allan Poe
★Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, The Raven，To Helen