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作者姜晓瑜 、陈红锐 、邓纯旭
出版社知识产权出版社
ISBN9787513037969
出版时间2019-05
装帧平装
开本16开
定价78元
货号27870566
上书时间2024-10-19
Prelude
American literature mainly refers to theliterature produced by people living in the United States During its early history, America was a series of British colonieson the eastern coast of the presentday United States Therefore, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broadertradition of English literature However, uniqueAmerican characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause itto be considered a separate path and tradition
The New England colonies were the center ofearly American literature The revolutionaryperiod contained political writings by Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin andThomas Paine In the postwar period, Thomas Jeffersons United States Declaration ofIndependence solidified his status as a key American writer It was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nationsfirst novels were published With the War of1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature andculture, a number of key new literary figures emerged, perhaps most prominentlyWashington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe In 1836, RalphWaldo Emerson (1803-1882) started a movement known as Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) wrote Walden, which urgesresistance to the dictates of organized society The political conflict surrounding abolitionism inspired thewritings of William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe in her worldfamous Uncle Toms Cabin These effortswere supported by the continuation of the slave narrative autobiography, ofwhich the best known example from this period was Frederick Douglasss Narrativeof the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) is notablefor his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter——a novel aboutadultery Hawthorne influenced Herman Melville(1819-1891) who is notable for the books MobyDick and Billy Budd Americas twogreatest 19th century poets were Walt Whitman (1819-1892) and Emily Dickinson(1830-1886). American poetry reached its peak in the earlytomid20th century, with such noted writers as Wallace Stevens, T S Eliot, RobertFrost, Ezra Pound, and E E Cummings Mark Twain (thepen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) was the first majorAmerican writer to be born away from the East Coast Henry James (1843-1916) was notable for novels like The Turn of theScrew At the beginning of the 20th century,American novelists included Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Stephen Crane(1871-1900), and Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945). Experimentation in style andform is seen in the works of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946).
American writers expressed disillusionmentfollowing WWI The stories andnovels of F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) capturethe mood of the 1920s, and John Dos Passos wrote about the war Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) became notable for The Sun Also Risesand A Farewell to Arms; in 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature William Faulkner (1897-1962) is notable for novels like The Soundand the Fury American drama attained internationalstatus only in the 1920s and 1930s, with the works of Eugene ONeill, who wonfour Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize In the middle ofthe 20th century, American drama was dominated by the work of playwrightsTennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, as well as by the maturation of theAmerican musical
Depression era writers included JohnSteinbeck (1902-1968), notable for his novel The Grapes of Wrath Henry Miller assumed a unique place in American Literature in the1930s when his semiautobiographicalnovels were banned from the US From the end of WorldWar II up until, roughly, the late 1960s and early 1970s saw the publication ofsome of the most popular works in American history such as To Kill aMockingbird by Harper Lee Americasinvolvement in World War II influenced the creation of works such as NormanMailers The Naked and the Dead (1948), Joseph Hellers Catch22 (1961) and Kurt Vonnegut Jrs SlaughterhouseFive (1969). John Updike was notable for his novel Rabbit, Run(1960). Philip Roth explores Jewish identity in American society From the early 1970s to the present day the most important literarymovement has been postmodernism and the flowering of literature by ethnicminority writers
This book, with vivid illustration ofpictures and detailed explanation and Chinese version presents you the bestworks of American literature and will help you have a profound understanding ofthe classics I hope that this book will be helpfulfor your English learning
Jiang Xiaoyu
June 2015
CONTENTS
Unit 1Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Bibliography
Autobiography
Answers for questions
Unit 2Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826)
Bibliography
The Declaration ofIndependence
Answers for the questions
Unit 3Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Bibliography
The Black Cat
Answers for questions
Unit 4Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Bibliography
Nature
Answers for questions
Unit 5Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Bibliography
Walden
Answers for the questions
Unit 6NathanielHawthorne(1804-1864)
Biography
The Scarlet Letter
Answers for questions
Unit 7Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Biography
Moby Dick
Answers for questions
Unit 8Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Bibliography
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Answers for questions
Unit 9Henry James (1843-1916)
Bibliography
Daisy Miller
Answers for questions
Unit 10JackLondon(1876-1916)
Bibliography
The Call of the Wild
Answers for questions
Unit 11Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Bibliography
Sister Carrie
Answers for questions
Unit 12 Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Bibliography
The Great Gatsby
Answers for questions
Unit 13Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Bibliography
The Old Man and the Sea
Answers for questions
Unit 14William Cuthbert Faulkner
(1897-1962)
Bibliography
The Sound and the Fury
Answers for questions
Unit 15
Henry (1862-1910)
Bibliography
The Gift of the Magi
Answers for questions
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