美国文学发展脉络

The Origin and Development of American LiteratureBeginning to

1860

Chapter I The Traditional Literature of the American Indians

1.1 Rituals and Songs

1.2 Myths and Other Stories

Chapter II The Colonial Period: 1590 --- 1750

2.1 The Narratives of Colonial Establishment and Exploration

2.2 The Consciousness of History and the Narratives

2.3 The Puritan Ideas and Its Literary Presentation

2.4 Bradstreet and Early American Poetry

2.5 Other Prose Writers of the Colonial Period

•Chapter III The Literature Around the Revolution of Independence:

1750 --- 1810

3.1 The Political Pamphlets

3.2 Other Prose Works of the Period

3.3 American Poetry during the Revolution

3.4 The Beginning and Development of American Drama

3.5 The Beginning and Development of American Fiction

独立革命前后的文学

独立革命时期的政论文学/其他散文/美国戏剧的初始与发展Chapter IV The Beginning of American Romanticism: 1810 --- 1840

4.1 Irving: His Prose and Short Stories

4.2 Cooper and His Fictions

4.3 Poe and His Short Stories

4.4 Poe, Bryant and American Romantic Poetry

Chapter V Emerson, Thoreau and Transcendentalism: 1830 --- 1850

5.1 Emerson and Transcendentalism 与美国超验主义

5.2 Thoreau and His Walden 及其《瓦尔丁湖》

5.3 Transcendentalism and the Classic Chinese Philosophy中国古典哲学思想

Chapter VI The American Renaissance: 1830 --- 1860

6.1 Hawthorne and His Romantics 小说创作

6.2 Melville and His Fictions

6.3 “Southern Writers” and Other Fiction Write rs

6.4 Longfellow and Other Major 19th Century Poets

6.5 Douglass and Other Prose Writers

6.6 Whitman and His Poems 的诗歌创作

6.7 Whitman and Chinese Literature

Chapter VII The Beginning and Development of American Literary

Criticism

7.1 Early American Literary Criticism 早期美国文学评论概述

7.2 The Literary Criticism of Poe 的文学批评与文学创作理论

7.3 Other Theories of Fiction and Poetry 其他小说诗歌理论

American Literature between the Civil War and WWI1860 ---

1914

南北战争至一战期间的美国文学

Chapter I Rise of the American Novel

1.1 The Novel of the West: Mark Twain, Harte, Garland

1.2 American Realists: Howells, James, Porter

1.3 American Naturalists: Norris, Crane, London, Dreiser

小说创作的高潮

描写西部的高手/现实主义小说的代表/世纪末的自然主义作家

Chapter II The Establishment of American Poetry2.1 Emily

Dickinson’s Contribution

2.2 Local Colorists: Moody, Lanier

2.3 Other Poets

诗歌的新发展

诗歌创作与成就/地方色彩诗人：穆迪、拉尼尔

Chapter III Development of American Theater

3.1 American Drama between the Two Wars

3.2 Early Realist Dramatists and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

3.3 Women Dramatist and Others

3.4 Early Dramatic Criticism

戏剧的进一步酝酿

19世纪下半叶美国戏剧的走向/早期现实主义戏剧/早期戏剧理论

Chapter IV Literary Movements between the Two Wars

4.1 American Realism

4.2 Naturalism in America

4.3 Local Colorism

4.4 Muckraking and Literary Muckrakers