Lecturethree06-07浪漫主义-精选课件(公开).ppt

1.____ was considered as the tenth muse emerging in the New World. 2.It is ______ who first advocated literary nationalism in his works. 3.Thomas Pain’s________was ever read to Washington’s soldiers in the Independent War. 4.___________ was greatly related to the movement of “the Great Awaking”. Lecture ThreeAmerican RomanticismIrvingCooper From the end of the eighteenth century through the outbreak of the Civil War American Romanticism 1.1770s-1830: burgeoning period 2.1830-1860:culminating period (American Transcendentalism) 3.1860-1870s declining period reasons for the rising of American Romanticism 1)?The optimistic mood of the nation following the national political independence inspired the romantic feeling and cried for literary expression. (American dream greatly inspired the romantic imagination. ) 2) the fertile literary milieu, a media for people to express their opinions. 3) the influences of the European romanticism (Walter Scott, Byron, Gothic tradition, Lyrical Ballads) distinct national features of American Romanticism(1) 1)Essentially, it is an expression of the spirit and specific experiences of the nation: western movement, the wilderness, the exotic landscape (the robin instead of nightingale), the civilization of American Indians, etc. distinct national features of American Romanticism(2) 2) the specific influence of American Puritanism : First, tend to moralize. Second, some taboo subjects for the writers not to break, like sex and love. the two characteristics of American Romanticism and their respective representatives both derivative and independent derivative vein: Irving and New England poets (they modeled their works upon English and European masters.) Independent vein (a call for the National Literature): Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, etc. Features of American Romanticism 1.emphasis on imagination and emotion 2.optimism (newness as a nation) 3. a profound love for nature 4.puritan moral values 5.a