美国作家霍桑Hawthorne3.pptVIP

Questions 1. When does American Romanticism begin to flourish? 2. Who is the first important American writer? And what is his representative work? 3. Is he a real American writer? 4. Who is the first American novelist? 5. When did American Romanticism culminate? 6. What has Nature been called? 7. And what has The American Scholar been rightly regarded? 8. Is American Romanticism the formative period of indigenous American literature? 9. Among the American Romantics, who drew from Emerson’s doctrine? And who reacted against his doctrine? 10. Who were “New England poets”? 11. Who was for a long time perhaps the most controversial and the most misunderstood of American writers? 霍桑 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) What do you know about Nathaniel Hawthorne ? Nathaniel Hawthorne 霍桑 (1804 - 1864) 1. American novelist and short story writer, most famous for his novel The Scarlet Letter. 2.Combined the American romanticism with puritan moralism 3.Pioneering psychological novelist (早期心理小说家 Major works Fiction Fanshawe 《范肖》(1828) The Blithedale Romance 《福谷传奇》(1852) The House of Seven Gables《带有七个尖角阁的房子》(1851) The Marble Faun 《大理石雕像》 (1860) The Scarlet Letter (1850) Assignment Read The Minister’s Black Veil and discuss the questions on it. * * 4.He didn’t agree with the optimism held by Transcendentalists towards human nature. He wrote lots of works on everlasting evil side in human nature. 5.Anti-transcendental works from Melville, Hawthorne, and Poe all comprise the Dark Romanticism （阴郁浪漫主义、黑色浪漫主义) of literature popular during this time. His life (1) 1 Born in Salem, Mass. in 1804; 2 Went to Bowdoin College (鲍登学院 ), being friends of Longfellow and Franklin Pierce in 1821; 3 Lived in solitude and seclusion from 1825 to 1837 (read widely, acquainted with local history, and practice writing: 1st tale in 1828; Twice-Told Tales in 1837) His life (2) 4 Worked as the Custom Officer in Boston for a while; later survey of the port of Salem