文档介绍：American Literature
American Literary Main Periods
Colonial Period
Age of Reason
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Realism
Naturalism
Regionalism
Modernism
Contemporary
The colonial period (约1607 - 1765)
The main features
Puritanism
The period of enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800)
Benjamin Franklin
The romantic period (1800 - 1865)
The early romanticism
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
“New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)”
Emerson
Thoreau
Whitman
Dickinson
Hawthorne
Melville
Allan Poe
“New England Poets” or “Schoolroom Poets”
Lowell
Bryant
Holmes
Whittier
Longfellow
The Reformers and Abolitionists
Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass
The realistic period (1865 - 1914)
Midwestern Realism
William Dean Howells
Cosmopolitan Novelist
Henry James
Local Colorism
Naturalism
Stephen Crane
Jack London
Theodore Dreiser
Mark Twain
The period of modernism (1914 - 1945)
Modern poetry: experiments in form (Imagism)
Ezra Pound
Wallace Stevens
Robert Frost
Carlos Williams
Prose Writing: modern realism (the Lost Generation)
Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Novels of Social Awareness
Sinclair Lewis
Dos Passos
John Steinbeck
Richard Wright
4) The 20th Century American Drama
Eugene O’ Neil
The Contemporary Literature (1945 - 2000)
American Poetry Since 1945: the Anti-tradition
American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation.
Part ONE. Early American and Colonial Period to 1765
The Main Features of this period
American literature grew out of humble origins. Diaries, histories, journals, letters, commonplace books, travel books, sermons, in short, personal literature in its various forms, occupy a major position in the literature of the early colonial period.
In content these early writings served either God or colonial expansion or both. In form, if there was any form at all, English literary traditions were faithfully imitated and transplant