1、A Survey of American Literature,美国文学简史 常耀信 著,学习参考书目,常耀信主编的美国文学简史配套辅导书美国文学简史学习指南赵红英主编中国传媒大学出版社,Map of America,Chapter 1 Colonial America,American Puritanismthe first settlers in America;Mayflower ship（1620）;features of Puritans; “doctrinaire opportunist” (practical idealist) cultural heritage,The Lit
2、erary Scene in Colonial America,The first American literature is neither American nor literature.It was the work of immigrants from England.It was an interesting mixture of travel accounts and religious writings.John Smith, William Bradford, John WinthropAnne Bradstreet, the “Tenth Muse”Philip Frene
3、au, important poet of 18th century,Chapter 2 Edwards, Franklin, Crevecoeur,Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)Poor Richards Almanac“Lost time is never found again.”“God help them who help themselves.”“Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”Autobiography自传,Chapter 3 America
4、n Romanticism, Irving, Cooper,American RomanticismBackgrounddemocracy and political equality, the ideals of new nation;spread of industrialism, sudden influx of immigrants, “pioneers” further westeconomic boom, optimism and hopecried for literary expression;foreign influences: Romantic movement in E
5、ngland and Europe, a model for American romantic writing,American Romanticism,Features: “pioneering”, a new experience;American Puritanism;“new” countryas a result: imitative and independent,Washington Irving (1783-1859),First American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame “Rip Van Winkle” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”,James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851),“Leatherstocking Tales” Natty Bumppoa mythic figureThe Pioneers拓荒者The Deerslayer 猎鹿者The Last of the Mohicans最后的莫希干人The Pathfinder探路人The Prairie 大草原,
