American Literature（PPT课件讲稿）American Romanticism（1810-1860）

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Lecture 3 American Literature

Obiectives Enable the ss to know the background representative writers and their works of the Romantic period in American literary history: Enable the ss to know spirit of transcendentalism by reading Emersons" The American Scholar” Enable the appreciate Hawthorne's style by a close reading of The Minister,s Black Veil

Objectives • Enable the Ss to know the background, representative writers and their works of the Romantic period in American literary history; • Enable the Ss to know spirit of transcendentalism by reading Emerson’s “ The American Scholar” • Enable the appreciate Hawthorne’s style by a close reading of “The Minister’s Black Veil

Teaching Materials William Cullen bryant “ To a Waterfowl “ The yellow vio|et Emerson “ The american Scholar” Hawthorne The minister’ s Black∨eil

Teaching Materials • William Cullen Bryant “To a Waterfowl” “The Yellow Violet” • Emerson “ The American Scholar” • Hawthorne “The Minister’s Black Veil

Teaching Methodology Lecturing Text-analysis

Teaching Methodology • Lecturing • Text-analysis

chaprer Thre American Romaariciss (101860

Chapter Three American Romanticism (1810-1860)

General Introduction .o Simply speaking, Romanticism is a literary movement flourished as a cultural force throughout the 19th c and it can be divided into the early period and the late period. Also it remains powerful in contemporary literature and art

General Introduction ❖ Simply speaking, Romanticism is a literary movement flourished as a cultural force throughout the 19th C and it can be divided into the early period and the late period. Also it remains powerful in contemporary literature and art

General Introduction Romanticism, a term that is associated with imagination and boundlessness, as contrasted with classicism, which is commonly associated with reason and restriction, A romantic attitude may be detected in literature of any period, but as an historical movement it arose in the 18th and 1 9th centuries. in reaction to more rational literary, philosophic, artistic, religious, and economic standards., The most clearl defined romantic literary movement in the U. s was Transcendentalism

General Introduction ❖ Romanticism, a term that is associated with imagination and boundlessness, as contrasted with classicism, which is commonly associated with reason and restriction. A romantic attitude may be detected in literature of any period, but as an historical movement it arose in the 18th and 19th centuries, in reaction to more rational literary, philosophic, artistic, religious, and economic standards.... The most clearly defined romantic literary movement in the U. S. was Transcendentalism

General Introduction ws The representatives of the early period includes Washington Irving, James Bryant and those of the late perio en Fenimore Cooper, and William Cull contain Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David thoreau, Walt whitman Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe

General Introduction ❖ The representatives of the early period includes Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant and those of the late period contain Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe

Its origins may be traced to o the economic rise of the middle class struggling to free itself from feudal and monarchical restrictions the individualism of the renaissance o the reformation, which was based on the belief in an immediate relationship between man and God the scientific deism(自然神论), which emphasized the deity's(上帝) benevolence, 合

Its origins may be traced to : ❖ the economic rise of the middle class, struggling to free itself from feudal and monarchical restrictions; ❖ the individualism of the Renaissance; ❖ the Reformation, which was based on the belief in an immediate relationship between man and God; ❖ the scientific deism(自然神论), which emphasized the deity’s(上帝) benevolence;

oo the psychology of Locke, Hartley and others, who contended that minds are formed by environmental conditions, thus seeming to be indicate that all men are created equal and may be improved by environmental changes; o the optimistic humanitarianism of Shaftsbury; the writings of Rousseau who contended that man is natural good, institutions also having made him wicked 合

❖ the psychology of Locke, Hartley, and others, who contended that minds are formed by environmental conditions, thus seeming to be indicate that all men are created equal and may be improved by environmental changes; ❖ the optimistic humanitarianism of Shaftsbury; ❖ the writings of Rousseau who contended that man is natural good, institutions also having made him wicked