完整版整理美国文学史作家作品文档良心出品

1、The Colonial PeriodJohn Smith William Bradford John Winthrop John Cotton Roger Williams Cotton Mather Jonathan Edwards Anne Bradstreet Edward TaylorAmerican Literature: Writers & WorksThe Age of Reason and EnlightenmentBenjamin FranklinThomas PaineJohn de CrevecoeurJohn WoolmanPhilip FreneauPhil

2、is WheatleyCharles Brockden BrownThe Age of RomanticismWashington IrvingJames Fenimore Cooper Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville Edgar Allan PoeWalt Whitman Emily DickinsonThe Age of RealismWilliam Dean HowellsHenry JamesMark TwainStephen CraneBenjamin Frank

3、NorrisTheodore DreiserEdwin Arlington RobinsonJack LondonO. HenryUpton SinclairThe Colonial Period1. John Smith (1580-1631)The first American writer writing in EnglishThe General History of Virginia (1624) (Pocahontas)A Description of New England (1614)A Map of Virginia; With a Description of the Co

4、untry (1612)2. William Bradford (1590-1657)Father of American historyThe 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 ColonyThe writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colo

5、nial periodThe History of New England (two volumes, 1825, 1826; 1630 - 1649 in diary) Model of Christian Charity(sermon)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 to

6、ngueA puritan dissenter, a staunch fighter for freedom and democracyThe Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience (1644)A Key into the Language of America6. Cotton Mather (1663-1728)An inexhaustible writer, producing more than 500 books on an incredible variety of subjects The most eminent

7、 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 sys

8、tematphilosopher Contributed to“Great Awake(1li7g0s-1740s) and a Transcendentalism Forerunner of the American transcendentalismSinners 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 N

9、ature of True Virtue (1765)Images or Shadows of Divine Things8. Ann Bradstreet (1612-1672)The first American woman poetA Puritan poetThe Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650)ContemplationsTo My Dear and Loving Husband “The Flesh and the Spirit 9. Edward Taylor (1642-1729)The most famous poet

10、 in the colonial periodA meditative poet (baroque); A puritan poetPreparatory MeditationsHuswiferyUpon a Spider Catching a FlyThe Poems of Edward Taylor (1960)The Age of Reason and Revolution1. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)One of the Founding Fathers of the USAPoor Richard s Almanac (1732-1758)The A

11、utobiography of Benjamin Franklin/Memoirs2. Thomas Paine (1737-1809)Common Sense(January 10, 1776)The American Crisis (December, 1776)The Rights of ManThe Age of ReasonAgrarian Justice3. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)Letters from an American Farmer (1775) (12 letters)4. John Woolman (1663-1728)Journ

12、alSome Considerations on the Keeping of NegroesA Plea for the Poor5. Philip Freneau (1752-1832)Poet of the American Revolution (18 th century)The first American-born poet; Father of American poetryEstablished the National Gazette in Philadelphia in 1791 with Thomas Jefferson' s supportThe Rising

13、 Glory of AmericaThe British Prison Ship (1871)To the Memory of the Brave Americans (1871)On the Memorable Victory of John Paul JonesThe Indian Burying GroundThe Dying Indian: Tomo ChequiThe Wild Honeysuckle6. Philis Wheatley (1754-1784)The first black woman poet in American literatureOn Messrs Huss

14、ey and Coffin (1770)Poems on Various Subjects (1773)7. Charles Brockden BrownThe first important American novelistWieland/The Transformation: An American Tale (1798) (first American novel)Edgar Huntly (1799)Ormond (1799)Aurthur Mervyn (1800)The Age of RomanticismThe Beginning of American Romanticism

15、 1810 18401. Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)Father of American literatureFather of American short storyThe first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fameThe first prose stylist of American Romanticism“the American Goldsmith The History of New York from the Beginning of th

16、e 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 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 GoldsmithLife

17、of Washington2. James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) The first important American novist.A master of adventurous narrative and the creator of an American hero-mythThe creator of sea novels and the American frontier novelsThe SpyThe PilotLeatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumpoo)“The Pioneers (1823)“The Las

18、t of the Mohicans (1826)“The Prairie (1827)“The Pathfinder (1840)“The Deerslayer (1841)New England Transcendentalism 1830 18503. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Father" of American literatureSpokesman of New England TranscendentalismNature (1836) (Bible of New England Transcendentalism)The Am

19、erican Scholar (1837) (America ' s Declaration of Intellectual Independence) Divinity School Address (1838)The TranscendentalistSelf-Reliance"Representative Man (1850)English Traits (1856)The Rhodora(1846)4. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Civil Disobedience (1849) (Concord jail experienc

20、e) 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 18605. Nathaniel Hawthorne . (1804 -1864) The most ambivalent writer in American literature history A master of symbolism Salem, MassachusettsTw

21、ice-told Tales (1837)Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)"Young Goodman Brown (f835)"The Ministers Black Veil “The Birthmark “Rappaccinis Daughter The Scarlet Letter (1850)The House of the Seven Gables (1851)The Blithedale Romance (1852)The Marble Faun (1860)Fanshawe (1828)6. Herman Melville (1

22、819 - 1891) Received recognition until 1920sMoby Dick/The Wale (1851) (Ishmael, Ahab, Moby Dick)Typee : A Peep at Plynesian Life (1846)Omoo : A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847)Mardi : And a V oyage Thither (1849)Redburn : His First V oyage (1849)White Jacket / The World in a Man-of-W

23、ar (1850)Pierre / The Ambiguities (1852)The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857)Bartleby the Scrivener (1853)Benito Cereno (1855)Billy Budd (1889, 1924)Clarel (1876)7. Edgar Allan . Poe . (1809 -1849) Originator and father of detective storyFather of psychoanalytic criticismTales of the Grotesque a

24、nd Arabesque Fall of the House of the UsherThe Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)The Raven (1844)Annable LeeTo Helen Alone “ The Te-Tale Heart The Philosophy of Composition (1846)The Poetic Principle (1850)8. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) A poet of free verse; Transitional figureLeaves of Grass (1855 to

25、1892 nine editions) (12 poems -383 poems)"Song of Myself (1855) (1336 lines)"O Captain! My Captain!"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom' d"“I Hear America Singing9. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) Of the 1775 poem, only 7 poem were published in her lifetimeThe Poems of Emily

26、 Dickinson (1955 Thomson H. Johnson)“My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close“Wild Nights Wild-Nights“Death is a Dialogue Between “I Reckon When I Count at all"Tell all the Truth but tell it SlantTo a Waterfowl (the most perfect brief poem in the language)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 -1882)Pos

27、t-romanticistThe Song of HiawathaEvangelineHarriet Beecher StoweabolitionistUncle Tom s' CabinThe Age of Realism (18651914)1. William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920)Champion (arbiter) of literary realism in AmericaThe Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)Criticism and Fiction (1891)Their Wedding JourneyA Moder

28、n Instance (1882)The Minister s ChargeA World of ChanceAnnie KilburnA Hazard of New Fortunes (1890)2. Henry James (1843 - 1916)First modern psychological analyst (Founder of psychological realism) (stream-of-consciousness) Psychological realistThe American (1877)Daisy Miller (1878)The Portrait of a

29、Lady (1881) (Isabel Archer)The Turn of the Screw (1898)What Maisie KnewThe Ambassadors (1903)The Wings of the Dove (1902)The Golden Bowl (1904)The Ivory TowerThe Sense of the PastThe American SceneMadame de MauvesThe Art of Fiction Local Colorism3. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)Samuel Langhorne Clemensthe

30、 true father of our national literature Local color; colloquial speech; vernacular language;a boy and an 01d man, but never was he a manCelebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyThe Gilded Age (1873)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)Life on the Mississippi (

31、1883)A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court (1889)The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900)The Mysterious Stranger (1916)Autobiography (1924)Innocents Abroad (1869)Roughing It (1872)Pudd' nhead WtonThe Prince and the Pauper (1882)American Claimant (1892)Following the EquatorDisgraceful Perse

32、cution of a BoyGoldsmith s Friend Abroad AgainThe Treaty with ChinaTo the Person Sitting in Darkness4. Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)The Luck of Roaring Camp (1868)The Outcasts of Poker FlatHamlin Garland (1860 - 1940)veritism真实主义The Main-Traveled Roads (1891) (collection of six short stories)Crumbling Id

33、ols : Twelve Essays on Art Dealing Chiefly with Literature, Painting and the Drama (1894) The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenKate Chopin (1850 - 1904)The AwakeningNaturalism5. Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)Pioneer who wrote in the naturalistic traditionPioneer in the field of modern poetry (Imagist poetry)First American naturalistMaggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) (first naturalistic novel)The Black Riders (1895) (poems)The Red Badge of Courage (1895) (first anti-war novel)The Blue HotelAn Experiment in MiseryOpen Boat (1897)The Bride Comes to Yellow S