浪漫主义的烙印</ 美国社会弥漫着乐观情绪，浪漫主义情感如泉涌；深受英国文学影响，注重文学的想象力与情感表达；个体主义和平民意识得以彰显；自然与社会的逃避成为一种寻求平衡的传统。 清教主义的道德遗产影响深远，超验主义在19世纪30年代的新英格兰兴起，以埃默生和梭罗为代表，推动了新英格兰的...
It sought to depict life objectively, through a scientific and natural lens. Naturalism portrayed nature and human beings as helpless and instinctual creatures, controlled by external forces like genetics, environment, and social conditions.The roots of naturalism in American literature can b...
Coming to terms with nature: American literature and the ecological imagination (Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Mary Hunter Austin).The dissertation examines the representation of the natural world in the nonfiction prose of Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and Mary Austin. I am ...
This article focuses on environmental criticism and the depiction of nature in nineteenth-century American literature. It explores what nineteenth-century American literature can offer to an era of global climate change (GCC) and describes the works of nineteenth-century defenders of nature including He...
Nature of Early American Essay essays The nature of early American narratives could be categorized as just that. Early American narratives. Writers of that era did not posses a rich cultural heritage to draw from. They had only a relatively small histori
themes,styles,and concerns within contemporary literary production,not just of"serious"literature,but also of popular"genre"fiction.To that end it includes examples of post-1970 novels that would be labeled realist,postmodernist,ethnic,magic realist, feminist,mystery,thriller,science fiction,and fantasy...
"Uneven Land" explores the ambiguous conceptual position of agriculture and nature in American literature during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris, William Ellsworth Smythe, and Liberty Hyde Bailey, Stephanie L...
This paper aims to define American nature writing, describe its conventions, explore its most common themes, and give a brief history of it. Nature writing in American literature has denoted a particular form of prose which combines objective descriptions of nature and personal meditations stimulated...
qualitiesof literature,picturesque,exotic,sensuous, sensational and supernatural.4,strong tendency to exalt theindividualand the common man was almost a national religion in America.5,the desire for anescape from society and a return to naturebecame a permanent convention of american literature. ...
5, the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of american literature. 美国清教主义 American Puritanism as a culture heritage exerted great influences over american Moral values。 超验主义 Transcendentalism:started by members of a informal club in ...