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American American LiteratureLiteratureIntroductionIntroduction

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Historical Background1.Early history:1) In 1542, Christopher Columbus found

the new continent called America.2) In 1607, Captain John Smith led some

Englishmen across the ocean.3) In 1620, 102 passengers sailed on the

ship Mayflower across the sea and settled on the new continent “New England”.

What do you know about American early history?

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Historical Background2. People:native inhabitants: Indians Immigrants mostly from Europe: Spanish;

Dutch; FrenchEnglish immigrants, Jamestown, Virginia,

1607 Puritans a group of

religious peopleadvocated religious &moral principles

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Historical Background

3. Belief---Puritanism Puritans wanted to “purify the church” to

its original state, because they thought the church was corrupted and had too many rituals

a code of values a philosophy of life a point of viewCalvinists

took roots in the New World

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Doctrines of Puritans

taking religion as the most important thing;

living for glorifying God; believing predestination, original sin, total

depravi, & limited atonement

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American Puritanism

Features of American Puritanidealist dream

they would build the new land to an Eden on earth.more practical, tougher

the severe conditionsstruggle for survivalpreoccupied with business and profits

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American PuritanismEnduring shaping influence on literature①Basis of American literature

went into the

making of American literature

dreamed of living under a perfect order worked with courage hoped to build an Eden of Garden on earth faced the worst of life with optimism

All literature is based on a myth – garden of Eden.

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American Puritanism②Contributing to the development of

Symbolism: a technique, widely used

Puritans thought that all the simple objects existing in the

world connoted deep meaning.

Symbolism means using symbols in literary works. The symbol means something that represents or stands for abstract deep meaning.

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American Puritanism ③Influencing the style of literature:

simple, fresh and direct (just as the style of the Authorized Version of Holy Bible)

Without understanding of Puritanism, there can be no good understanding of American culture and literature.

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Brief Outline of American Literature

1. Colonial period and Revolutionary period

2.Romanticism3.The age of Realism

4. The Modern period

5. After the WWII

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Time:1607

the Independence War

the settlement of North America

1783

Major topic: American Puritanism

Colonial period and Revolutionary period

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Colonial period and Revolutionary period

Benjamin Franklin

Jonathan Edwards

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Romanticism

Time:

1783

the Civil War

the Independence War

1861American ideal of democracy & equality, industrialization, westward expansion, foreign influences

literary expansion & expression

possible & inevitable

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Romanticism (1783-1861)

Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper

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Summit of Romanticism-Transcendentalism (American

Renaissance)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry DavidThoreau

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Late Romanticism

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

not optimistic

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Romantic Poets

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

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Romanticism

Edgar Allen Poe

the most controversial & the most misunderstood

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The age of RealismThe age of RealismTime:

1861

the First World War

the Civil War

1914

concern for the common-place

offer an objective view

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The Age of Realism (1861-1914)

Mark TwainHenry James

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Naturalism

Stephen Crane Theodore Dreiser

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Conclusion

Early Romanticism

The age of Realism

Colonial period and Revolutionary period

Irving Franklin Cooper Emerson Hawthorne Poe Whitman Dickenson Twain James Dreiser Melville Thoreau

Transcendentalism

Late Romanticism

poets


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