《美国文学史》各章节知识点指南

美国文学史》各章节知识点指南
时间:2011年2月
使用教材:《美国文学史》(第二版)常耀信著
Chapter 1  Colonial America
★ 1607 Jamestown, Virginia:the first permanent English settlement in America
★ 1620 Plymouth, Massachusetts: the second permanent English settlement in America
★ Captain John Smith: the first American writer writing in English
★ Anne Bradstreet: the first American woman poet
                Major work: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650)
                Contemplations (9) on P. 17 (熟悉这首诗歌)
                To My Dear and Loving Husband《致我亲爱的丈夫》
磁流★ Philis Wheatley: the first black woman poet in American literature
★ Edward Taylor: the most famous poet in the colonial period
                Huswifery on P. 19 (熟悉这首诗歌)
★ Roger Williams: The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644)
                    Translated the Bible into the Indian tongue
★ John Winthrop: “Model of Christian Charity” (〈基督慈善之典范〉)
The History of New England (two volumes, 1825, 1826)
(〈新英格兰史〉) 1630 --- 1649 in diary 
★ Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason
★ Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution
                The Wild Honeysuckle, The Indian Burying Ground, The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi
★ Charles Brockden Brown: the first important American novelist
                        Wieland, Edgar Huntly, Ormond, Aurthur Mervyn
Chapter 2  Edwards, Franklin, Crevecoeur
the 18th century: Age of Reason and Enlightenment
Jonathan Edwards: America’s first systematic philosopher
                  The Freedom of the Will, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac
熟悉37页的引文
Hector St. John de Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer
Chapter 3  American Romanticism, Irving, Cooper
Washington Irving: the first American writer to win international acclaim
  The Sketch Book: Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow甲苯胺蓝
ousiaJames Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Tales (五个故事的题目)
别洛韦日协议
                        Natty Bumpo (人物形象)
Chapter 4  New England Transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature (the Bible and manifesto of New England Transcendentalism)
  The American Scholar (America’s Declaration of Intellectual
Independence)
Henry David Thoreau: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Chapter 5  Hawthorne, Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Twice-Told Tales, The House of the Seven Gables,                                    The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, Young Goodman Brown
Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White Jacket, Pierre
Chapter 6  Whitman, Dickinson
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass; free verse; Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson: Of the 1775 poems, only 7 poems were published in her lifetime.
                  熟悉教材中98至102页所选的诗歌
Chapter 7  Edgar Allan Poe
★ Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, The Raven,To Helen
                  熟悉教材中107页所选的The Raven中的部分诗行
Chapter 8  The Age of Realism, Howells, James
William Dean Howells: The Rise of Silas Lapham, Criticism and Fiction
Henry James: important writings listed on P. 125
              the international theme
Chapter 9  Local Colorism, Mark Twain
Hamlin Garland: Crumbling Idols, Veritism (真实主义)
Bret Harte: The Luck of Roaring Camp
Mark Twain: 主要作品, vernacular literature, colloquial style
Harriet Beecher Stowe 斯托夫人 & her Uncle Tom’s Cabin《汤姆叔叔的小屋》
安理会非常任理事国
Louisa May Alcott 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特 & her Little Women 《小妇人》
Kate Chopin 凯特·肖班 & her The Awakening 《觉醒》
Chapter 10  American Naturalism, Crane, Norris, Dreiser, Robinson
Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (the first naturalistic novel in American                        literature), The Red Badge of Courage (the first anti-war novel in American literature),
            Famous short stories: The Open Boat, The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky
Frank Norris: The Octopus, McTeague
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, the Desire Trilogy, The Genius
Edwin Arlington Robinson: Richard Cory
Jack London: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf, Martin Eden
38tttO. Henry (William Sidney Porter): famous for his short stories such as The Gift of the Magi

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