整理 美国文学史作家作品

2021年1月22日发(作者：景德敏)
American Literature
The Colonial Period
John Smith
William Bradford
John Winthrop
John Cotton
Roger Williams
Cotton Mather
Jonathan Edwards
Anne Bradstreet
Edward Taylor


The Age of Romanticism
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson




American Literature: Writers & Works

The Age of Reason and Enlightenment
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
John de Crevecoeur
John Woolman
Philip Freneau
Philis Wheatley
Charles Brockden Brown

The Age of Realism
William Dean Howells
Henry James
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Benjamin Frank Norris
Theodore Dreiser
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Jack London
O. Henry
Upton Sinclair
The Colonial Period
1.

John Smith (1580-1631)
The first American writer writing in English
The General History of Virginia
(1624) (Pocahontas)
A Description of New England
(1614)
A Map of Virginia; With a Description of the Country
(1612)
2.

William Bradford (1590-1657)
Father of American history
The first governor of the Plymouth Plantation
（
1620
）

History of Plymouth Plantation
(1630,1856)
3.

John Winthrop (1588-1657)
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period
The History of New England


(two volumes, 1825, 1826; 1630 --- 1649 in diary)
Model of Christian Charity

（
sermon
）


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American Literature
4.

John Cotton (1584-1652)
The most eminent and admired minister in the first generation of New England Puritans.
5.

Roger Williams (1603-1683)
Translated the Bible into the Indian tongue
A puritan dissenter, a staunch fighter for freedom and democracy
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience
(1644)
A Key into the Language of America
6.

Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
An inexhaustible writer, producing more than 500 books on an incredible variety of subjects
The most eminent and admired minister in the first generation of New England Puritans.
A skillful preacher, a great Puritan historian, an eminent theologian, a graduate of Harvard College
The Magnalia Christi America
(
The Ecclesiastical History of New England
)
7.

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
America’s first systematic
philosopher
Contributed to “Great Awakening”
(1730s-1740s)
and “Transcendentalism”

Forerunner of the American transcendentalism
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
(best and most representative sermon)
The Freedom of the Will
(1754) (masterpiece)
The Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended
(1758)
The Nature of True Virtue
(1765)
Images or Shadows of Divine Things

8.

Ann Bradstreet (1612-1672)
The first American woman poet
A Puritan poet
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America
(1650)
Contemplations
“
To My Dear and Loving Husband
”

“The Flesh and the Spirit”

9.

Edward Taylor (1642-1729)
The most famous poet in the colonial period
A meditative poet (baroque); A puritan poet
Preparatory Meditations
Huswifery
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
The Poems of Edward Taylor (1960)

The Age of Reason and Revolution
1.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
One of the Founding Fathers of the USA
Poor Richard’
s Almanac
(1732-1758)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin/Memoirs
2.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Common Sense
(January 10, 1776)
The American Crisis
(December, 1776)

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American Literature
The Rights of Man
The Age of Reason
Agrarian Justice

3.

John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
Letters from an American Farmer
(1775) (12 letters)
4.

John Woolman (1663-1728)
Journal
“
Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
”

“
A Plea for the Poor
”

5.

Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
Poet of the American Revolution (18
th
century)
The first American-born poet; Father of American poetry
Established the National Gazette in Philadelphia in 1791 with Thomas Jefferson’s support

The Rising Glory of America
The British Prison Ship
(1871)
To the Memory of the Brave Americans
(1871)
On the Memorable Victory of John Paul Jones
The Indian Burying Ground
The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi
The Wild Honeysuckle
6.

Philis Wheatley (1754-1784)
The first black woman poet in American literature
On Messrs Hussey and Coffin
(1770)
Poems on V
arious Subjects
(1773)
7.

Charles Brockden Brown


The first important American novelist
Wieland/The Transformation: An American Tale
(1798) (first American novel)
Edgar Huntly
(1799)
Ormond
(1799)
Aurthur Mervyn
(1800)



The Age of Romanticism
The Beginning of American Romanticism 1810 ~ 1840
1.

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
Father of American literature
Father of American short story
The first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame
The first prose stylist of American Romanticism
“the American Goldsmith”

The History of New York
from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809)
The Sketch Book
of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1819 - 1820)
“Rip Van Winkle”

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”


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American Literature
The History of the Life and V
oyages of Christopher Columbus
(1828)
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
(1829)
The Alhambra
(1832)
Life of Goldsmith

Life of Washington

2.

James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851)
The first important American novist.
A master of adventurous narrative and the creator of an American hero-myth
The creator of sea novels and the American frontier novels
The Spy
The Pilot
Leatherstocking Tales
(Natty Bumpoo)
“The Pioneers”
(1823)
“The Last of the Mohicans”
(1826)
“The Prairie”
(1827)
“The Pathfinder”

(1840)
“The Deerslayer”
(1841)
New England Transcendentalism 1830 ~ 1850
3.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“
Father
”
of American literature
Spokesman of New England Transcendentalism
Nature
(1836) (Bible of New England Transcendentalism)
The American Scholar

(1837) (America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence)

Divinity School Address
(1838)
“
The Transcendentalist
”

“
Self-Reliance
”

Representative Man
(1850)
English Traits
(1856)
The Rhodora
(1846)
4.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Civil Disobedience (1849) (Concord jail experience)
Walden/Life in the Woods (Jul. 4, 1845
–
Sept. 6, 1847)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1838)
“A Plea for John Brown”

American Renaissance 1830 ~ 1860
5.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804
–
1864)
The most ambivalent writer in American literature history
A master of symbolism
Salem, Massachusetts

Twice-told Tales
(1837)
Mosses from an Old Manse
(1846)
“Young Goodman Brown”

(1835)
“The Minister’
s Black V
eil”

“The Birthmark”

“Rappaccini’
s Daughter”

The Scarlet Letter
(1850)

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