美国文学史复习要点整理【手动】

美国文学史复习要点整理【手动】

美国文学史整理

一、Colonial America 殖民时期

1、 New England：Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. 2、

Doctrines of Puritanism清教

American

Puritanism

stressed

predestination（命运神定), original sin（原罪）, total depravity (彻底的堕落), and limited atonement (有限的赎罪)from God’s grace.

3、 Writing style：fresh, simple and direct and with a touch of nobility； the rhetoric is plain and honest.

4、 Life style：hard work, thrift, piety, and sobriety. 5、

Main writer: ①Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

work：Common Sense (1776) 《常识》 American Crisis (1776-1783) The Rights of Man《人权》 The Age of Reason《理性时代》

②Benjamin Franklin（本杰明·富兰克

《美国危机》

Poor Richard’s Almanac 《穷查理

林）

历书》

Autobiography 《富兰克林自传》

③Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰弗逊 Declaration Independence (1776)《独立宣言》

二、American Romanticism (early period) 浪漫主义前期

of

1、Characteristics：

①A rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism. 反对理性主义的客观性。

②Feelings, intuitions and emotions were more important for romantics than reason and common sense.

③An emphasis on individualism; placing the

感受、直觉和情感重于理性和常识。

individual against the group, against authority. 强调个人主义,将个人与团体,反对权威。

④Stress on the close relationship between man