The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as providing a concise social and cultural history of these three centuries. Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict ...
Introduction_to_American_Literature IntroductiontoAmericanliterature TheColonialPeriodTheRomanticPeriodTheAgeofRealismNaturalismThePeriodaroundWWITheModernPeriod I.TheColonialPeriod(theearly17thand18thcentury)1.Puritanism:idealismandopportunism 2.BenjaminFranklin:“TheAutobiographyofBenjaminFranklin”II.TheRomanticPeriod(...
Historical Approach Aims at illustrating the historical development of literature.,6. How to study literature,.,Part II Historical background, 10、What do you know about American early history?,.,1.Early history:,1) In 1542, Christopher Columbus(1451-1506) found the new continent called America...
美国文学史及宣读--American Literature W-1 Introduction and Colonial Period 热度: Part One Early and Medieval__ English Literature 英国文学 热度: 英国文学史简介(A brief introduction to the history of English Literature) 热度: HistoryofBritishLiterature ...
They look back with nostalgia to the rich culture of Europe. Commenting on the works of the early American writers, Spiller writes,"They were more often purveyors of this nostalgia than recorders of the warmth of the American imagination kindling in novel scenes. They believed that their ...
”3)HistoricalApproach➢Aimsatillustratingthehistoricaldevelopment ofliterature..PartIIHistoricalbackground WhatdoyouknowaboutAmericanearlyhistory?.1.Earlyhistory:•1)In1542,ChristopherColumbus(14511506)foundthenewcontinentcalledAmerica..2)In1607,CaptainJohnSmithledsomeEnglishmenacrosstheocean—JamesTown .
3.Whydopeoplereadliterature? 1)ReadingforPleasure Howellsthinkthat“thestudyofliteratureshouldbegin andendinpleasure”.Apartfromitsroleofprotest, education,cognitionandaestheticappreciation, literatureisprimarilygivepleasure. 2)ReadingforRelaxation Getreadersawaytoanimaginaryworld,thusforget ...
AmericanLiterature LectureOne Lecturer:Jarvisjiang TheRangeoftheAmericanLiteraryHistory TheAmericanliteraturepersedidnotbeginuntilthe19thcentury. Colonialperiod:(about1607-1765)stretchingroughlyfromthesettlementofAmericaintheearlyseventeenthcenturythroughtheendoftheeighteenth. Ageofenlightenment:(1765-late18thcentury)...
Enable the Ss to know the background, representative writers and their works of each period in American literary history 4. 文学批评Literary criticism Enable the Ss to appreciate a literary work from different perspectives II. How to study literature?1. Historical Approach Aims at illustrating the ...
PeriodsofAmericanLiterature 1.TheearlyA.literature(Colonialperiod&earlynationalandrevolutionaryperiod)(1607-1783)2.TheageofRomanticism(1783-1865)3.TheageofRealism&Naturalism(1865- 1914)4.A.Lit.betweenthetwowars:1914-1945 (modernism)5.ContemporaryA.Lit.:1945- (postmodernism)TeachingPlanforthewholeterm We...