美国文学史概论之四：现实主义文学

• Other abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Highland Garnet, Wendell Phillips, Thomas Higginson, William W. Brown ( Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave)
• Edgar Lee Masters and his Spoon River Anthology
• Amy Lowell, A Dome of Many-Colored Glass,
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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed, “Autumn Haze”
• Paul Hamilton Hayne,“Southern Laureate”, Midsummer in the South
• Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman(1899), The Goophered Grapevine, The House behind the Cedars(1900)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, poetry: “The Colored Soldiers”,“When Dey Listed Colored Soldiers’;Fiction: The Lynching of Jube Benson, The Sport of the Gods
IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914)
4.4 The Rise of: Bayou Folk,1894; A Night in Acadie,1897; The Awakening,1899; “The Story of an Hour” “The Storm”
• 2. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth,1905; Ethan Frome, 1911;
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The Custom of Country, 1913; The Age of Innocence, 1920.
• 3. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women,1867; Little Men,1871.
E.A. Robinson and naturalist poetry: The Man Against the Sky
“Richard Cory”, “Miniver Cheevy”
IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914)
4.2 New Poetical Development: Regional Poetry
• George Washington Cable, Sieur George, Old Creole Days, the Grandissimes
• Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings,
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Free Joe and Other Sketches
• William Du Bois, first Harvard Afro-Am. Ph.D, The Souls of Black Folk(1903), The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois (1963)
• Booker T. Washington, a mild protestant, Up from Slavery (1901)
• Local Colorists:
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Mark Twain and other Local colorists (regionalism)
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- Frances Bret Harte, The Luck of the Roaring Camp (1968)
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
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- Hamlin Garland, Much-Traveled Roads
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A Son of the Middle Border, Crumbling Idols.
• Naturalists:
Frank Norris, Stephan Crane, Jack London
Theodore Dreiser and his naturalist novels
• Edwin Markham,The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln and Other Poems
• Lizette Reese, Tears, A Branch of May, A Handful of Lavender
• Anna H. Branch, The Shoes That Danced, Rose of the Wind
IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914)
4.3 Afro-American literary scene
• Abolitionists and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1851), The Minister’s Wooing, Oldtown Folks, Dred
IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914)
4.1 The High-tide of Realistic novels
• Realists: Henry James and his psychological realism
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William Dean Howells and his moral realism
• Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as the Titanic Figures
• William Moody, An Ode in Time of Hesitation, The Menagerie
• Sidney Lanier, a musical poet, To Beethoven, Corn, The Symphony