美国文学史复习资料

2021年1月22日发(作者：尚祚臻)
The Colonial Period
1. John Smith: A Description of New England
2. William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation
3. John Winthrop: A Model of Christian Charity
4. Anne Bradstreet
Tenth Muse









Contemplations
To My Dear and Loving Husband




The Flesh and the Spirit
5. Edward Taylor
Huswifery






Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
6. Roger Williams
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience
7. John Woolman: Journal

8. Thomas Paine
Common Sense


The American Crisis


The Rights of Man



The Age of Reason
9. Philip Freneau
The Rising Glory of America




The Wild Honey Suckle





The Indian Burying Ground
10. Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale

American Puritanism:
Religious idealism & levelheaded common sense

1.

Jonathan Edwards
The Freedom of the Will








The Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended
The Nature of True Virtue







Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

2.

Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography








Poor Richard
’
s Almanac

American Romanticism
1. Washington Irving
A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty,


The Sketch Book
:
Rip Van Winkle



The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The History of the Life and V
oyages of Christopher Columbus
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
The Alhambra







Life of Goldsmith







Life of Washington

James Fenimore Cooper
The Spy
Leatherstocking Tales:
The Pioneers




The Last of Mohicans


The Prairie
The Pathfinder



The Deerslayer

New England Transcendentalism

1.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature




The American Scholar




The Representative Men
2.

Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience





Walden






A Week on the Concord and Merrimack River
3.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter









The House of the Seven Gables

Mosses from an old Manse





The Blithedale Romance






The Marble Faun

4.

Herman Melville
Moby Dick





Clarel




Typee




Omoo




Mardi




Redburn
White Jacket




The Confidence Man




Billy Budd
5.

Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass





Song of Myself




There was a Child Went Forth
Cross Brooklyn Ferry
6.

Emily Dickinson
My Life Closed Twice before its Close







Wild Nights
—
Wild Nights
Mine
—
by the Right of the White Election





Death is a Dialogue between
To Fight Aloud






A Triumph Maybe





The Brain is Wilder than the Sky
I know that He exists






















The Beggar Lad Dies Early
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking







When I was Small a Woman Died
I Reckon When I Count at All















This is My Letter to the World
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

Age of Realism
1.

William Dean Howells
威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯

(1837-1920)
The Rise of Silas Lapham











A Modern Instance

A Hazard of New Fortunes

2.

Henry James
亨利·詹姆斯（
1843-1916
）

Daisy Miller






















The Golden Bowl

The Portrait of a Lady













The Turn of the Screw
The Ivory Tower


















The Sense of the Past
The Ambassadors















What Maisie Knew

Local colorism
1.

Mark Twain

美国文学之父

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

(national famous)
The Gilded Age

(his first novel)




The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

(colloquial style)
Life on the Mississippi




A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur
’
s Court





The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Mysterious Stranger




Autobiography
Innocent Abroad





Roughing It




Pudd
’
nhead Wilson
The Prince and the Pauper




American Claimant
2.

Bret Harte