美国文学复习大纲.docx

美国文学复习大纲 美国文学 1THE LITERATURE OF COLONIAL AMERICA 1.1 The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. 1.2 The first writing that we call American were the narratives and journals of these settlements. 1.3The first American writer is Captain John Smith,settled in Jamestown. 1.4 The first American poet is 1.5 Puritan Thoughts:the puritans establish their own moral and religious principles known as American Puritanism, which became one of the enduring influences in American literature. American Puritanism stressed on predestination, depravity, original sin, and salvation of selected few from Gods grace. With such doctrines in their minds, Puritans left Europe for America in order to establish a theocracy in the new world. over the years in new homeland they establish a new way of life stressed on hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety( 其中也包括个人主义再现) 1.6Anne Bradstreet -------the first poet in America by crisis -------the first woman poet in America -------she settled in Massachusetts ------ The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America 2THE LITERATURE OF REASON AND REVOLUTION 2.1主要文体------ politics essay 2.2 The War for Independence-----1776-1783---ended in the formation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic- the United States of America 2.3 Benjamin Franklin-----思想：自助者天助（God helps those who help themselves） 2.4 Thomas Paine----- Great Commoner of Mankind ----- Rights of Man; The Age of Reason; Agrarian Justice American Crisis (a series of 16 pamphlets) 2.5 P32 ①for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.------ spirit / enthusiasm of struggle ② but if a thief breaks into my house---- British government 2.6★Philip Freneau-----美国前期浪漫主义的代表诗人/ the most outstanding writer of the post-Revolutionary period ----- “The Poet of Revolution” ----- “Father of American Poetry”(连线) ----- he settled in Mount Pleasant, near Freehold, New Jersey ---- The Wild-Honey Suckle(If nothing o