Study guide to American literature

目录
Chapter One The Literature of Colonial America
Ⅰ. Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Literature of Exploration
Ⅱ. The Colonial Period in New England
2.1 John Smith
2.2 William Bradford
2.3 John Winthrop
2.4 John Cotton
2.5 Roger Williams
2.6 Anne Bradstreet
2.7 Edward Taylor
Ⅲ. American Puritanism
3.1 Definitions of Puritans
3.2 Basic Puritan Beliefs
3.3 The Function of Puritan Writers
3.4 The Style of Puritan Writing and Common Themes
3.5 Reasons for Puritan Literary Dominance over the Virginians
Chapter Two The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Ⅰ. The American Enlightenment
Ⅱ. Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers,1776—1820
Ⅲ. Benjamin Franklin
3.1 His Life and Works
3.2 The Autobiography：Part Ⅰ, First Section
3.3 Characteristics of His Literary Works
Ⅳ. Thomas Paine
4.1 His Life and Works
4.2 Common Sense
Ⅴ. Thomas Jefferson
5.1 His Life and Works
5.2 The Declaration of Independence
Ⅵ. Philip Freneau
6.1 His Life and Major Poems
6.2 The Nature Poems
Chapter Three The Literature of Romanticism
Ⅰ. The Origin of Romantic American Literature
Ⅱ. Its Social,Historical and Cultural Background
Ⅲ. The Important Concepts of American Romantic Literature
Ⅳ. New England Transcendentalism
Ⅴ. Washington Irving
5.1 His Life and Major Works
5.3 Rip Van Winkle
5.4 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Ⅵ. James Fenimore Cooper
6.1 His Life and Major Works
6.2 The Last of Mohicans
6.3 Themes of The Last of Mohicans
6.4 Analysis of Major Characters
Ⅶ. William Cullen Bryant
7.1 His Life and Major Works
7.2 Thanatopsis
7.3 Bryant as a Poet
7.4 Communion with His "Maker"
Ⅷ. Edgar Allan Poe
8.1 His Life and Major Works
8.2 Poe as a Critic and a Romancer
8.3 To Helen
8.4 The Raven
8.5 The Fall of the House of Usher
Ⅸ. Ralph Waldo Emerson
9.1 His Life and Major Works
9.2 Emersonian Transcendentalism
9.3 Nature(Chapter One)
9.4 Self-Reliance
Ⅹ. Henry David Thoreau(1817—1862)
10.1 His Life and Major Works
10.3 Walden(Chapter Two)
10.4 Major Themes of Walden
Ⅺ. Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804—1864)
11.3 The Scarlet Letter
11.4 Themes of This Novel
11.5 Analysis of Major Characters
11.6 The Structure and the Form of This Novel
11.8 Young Goodman Brown
Ⅻ. Herman Melville(1819—1891)
12.1 His Life and Major Works
12.2 Moby-Dick
12.3 Major Themes of Moby-Dick
12.4 Major Symbols of Moby-Dick
12.5 Analysis of Major Characters
ⅩⅢ. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807—1882)
13.1 His life and Major Works
13.2 Analysis of A Psalm of Life
Chapter Four The Literature of Realism
Ⅰ. The Historical and Socio-Cuhural Background of American Realism
Ⅱ. Walt Whitman
2.3 Summary of Song of Myself
2.4 Analysis of Song of Myself
2.5 Overview of Beat！Beat！Drums!
Ⅲ. Emily Dickinson(1830—1886)
3.2 I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
3.3 Because I Could Not Stop for Death
3.4 I Died for Beauty—But Was Scarce…
3.5 A Bird Came Down the Walk—…
Ⅳ. Harriet B. Stowe
4.1 Her Life and Major Works
4.3 Themes of This Novel
4.4 Symbols of This Novel
4.5 Analysis of Major Characters
Ⅴ. Mark Twain(1835—1910)
5.2 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5.3 Themes of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5.4 Analysis of Major Characters
Ⅵ. O. Henry
6.1 His Life and Major Works
6.2 Cop and the Anthem
6.3 The Gift of the Magi
Ⅶ. Henry James
7.1 His Life and Major Works
7.2 The Portrait of aLady
7.3 Analysis of Major Characters
7.4 Analytical Overview of the Novel
7.5 Uses of Houses in The Portrait of a Lady
Ⅷ. Jack London(1876—1916)
8.1 His Life and Major Works
8.2 The Sea Wolf
8.3 Martin Eden
8.4 Majoy Themes of Martin Eden
Ⅸ. Theodore Dreiser(1871—1945)
9.1 His Life and Major Works
9.2 Sister Carrie
9.3 Analysis of Major Characters
Chapter Five Twentieth Century Literature
Ⅰ. The Historical and Socio-Cuhural Background
1.1 The Two World Wars
1.2 The Impact of Marxism,Freudianism and European Modern Arts on American Modern Literature
Ⅱ. Overviews of American Literature between the Two World Wars
2.1 The Imagist Movement and the Artistic Characteristics of Imagist Poems
2.2 The Lost Generation
2.3 The Concept of "Wasteland" in Relation to the Works of Those Writers in the Twentieth-Century American Literature
Ⅲ. Ezra Pound
3.1 His Life and Literary Career
3.2 A Virginal and Compact
3.3 In a Station of the Metro
Ⅳ. Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869—1945)
4.1 His Life and Literary Career
4.4 Two Outcasts in Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy
Ⅴ. Robert Frost(1874—1963)
5.1 His Life and Literary Career
5.2 After Apple-Picking
5.3 Mending Wall
5.4 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Ⅵ. Carl Sandburg(1878—1967)
6.1 His Life and Literary Career
6.2 Analysis of Chicago
6.3 Analysis of Fog
Ⅶ. Wallace Stevens
7.1 His Life and Literary Career
7.2 Analysis of Peter Quinceat the Clavier
7.3 Analysis of Anecdote of the Jar
7.4 Analysis of The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Ⅷ. Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888—1965)
8.1 His Life and Literary Career
8.2 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
8.4 Analysis of The Journey of the Magi
8.5 Overview of The Waste Land
8.6 Travels in The Waste Land
Ⅸ. F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896—1940)
9.1 His Life and Literary Career
9.2 The Great Gatsby
9.3 Themes of The Great Gatsby
9.4 Metaphor Analysis
9.5 Analysis of Major Characters
9.6 Fitzgerald and the American Dream
Ⅹ. Ernest Hemingway
10.1 His Life and Literary Career
10.2 A Farewell to Arms
10.3 Themes of A Farewell to Arms
10.4 Analysis of Major Characters
10.5 Weather Symbolism in A Farewell to Arms
10.6 The Hemingway Code Hero
Ⅺ. John Steinbeck
11.1 His Life and Literary Career
11.2 The Grapes of Wrath
11.3 Themes of The Grapes of Wrath
11.4 Analysis of Major Characters
11.5 The Use of Literary Devices in the Intercalary Chapters of The Grapes of Wrath
Ⅻ. William Faulkner
12.1 His Life and Literary Career
12.2 The Sound and the Fury
12.3 Themes of The Sound and the Fury
12.4 Analysis of Major Characters
12.5 A Rose for Emily
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