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美国文学复习

THECHARACTERSOFCERTAINWORKS

1.OfPlymouthPlantation,WilliamBradford（1590-1657）

2.Autobiography,BenjaminFranklin（1706-1790）:

WilliamFranklin,Parents,JamesFranklin,JohnCollins,AndrewBradford,SamuelKeimer,JohnRead,DeborahRead,Gov.WilliamKeith,JamesRalph,Mr.Denham,Meredith,

3.PoorRichard'sAlmanac,BenjaminFranklin

4.CommonSense,ThomasPaine（1737-1809）

5.DeclarationofIndependence,ThomasJefferson（1743-1826）

6.RipVanWinkle,WashingtonIrving（1783-1859）:

RipVanWinkle,DameVanWinkle,Rip,JudithGardenier,DerrickVanBummel,NicholasVedder,Mr.Doolittle,Wolf,TheGhostsofHenryHudsonandhiscrew

7.TheLegendofSleepyHollow,WashingtonIrving

8.AHistoryofNewYorkbyDiedrichKnickerbocker,WashingtonIrving

9.TheLeather-StockingSeries,JamesFenimoreCooper（1789-1851）:

1）ThePioneers（1823）:

Nathaniel"Natty"Bumppo,JudgeMarmadukeTemple,Elizabeth"Bess"Temple,Richard"Dick"Jones,SquireHiramDoolittle,etc.

2）TheLastoftheMohicans（1826）

3）ThePrairie（1827）

4）ThePathfinder（1840）

5）TheDeerslayer（1841）

10.essays,RalphWaldoEmerson（1803-1882）:

1）Self-Reliance;

2）Essays:

FirstSeries（1841）;

3）Essays:

SecondSeries（1844）;

4）Poems（1847）;

5）EnglishTrait（1856）;

6）TheConductofLife（1860）;

11.books,RalphWaldoEmerson:

1）Nature;

2）Nature,Address,andLectures（1849）（conpilation）;

3）Journals（Publishedafterdeath）;

4）Letters（Publishedafterdeath）;

12.books,HenryDavidThoreau（1817-1862）:

1）Walden（1854）;

HenryDavidThoreau,RalphWaldoEmerson,AlexTherien,JohnField,AmosBronsonAlcott,WilliamElleryChanning,HenryClay,LidianEmerson,JamesRussellLowell,Mencius,

2）Excursions（1863）;

3）TheMaineWoods（1864）;

4）CapeCod（1865）;

5）AYankeeinCanada（1866）;

13.otherworks,HenryDavidThoreau（1817-1862）:

1）ResistancetoCivilGovernment;

2）AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers;

3）CivilDisobedience;

14.TheRaven,EdgarAllanPoe（1809-1849）

15.ThePhilosophyofComposition,EdgarAllanPoe

16.TheScarletLetter,NathanielHawthrne（1804-1864）:

HesterPrynne,Pearl,RogerChillingworth,ReverendArthurDimmesdale,GovernorBellingham,MistressHibbins,

17.MobyDick,HermanMelville（1819-1891）:

Ishmael,Ahab,MobyDick,Starbuck,Queequeg,Stubb,Tashtego,Flask,Daggoo,Pip,Fedallah,Peleg,Bildad,FatherMapple,CaptainBoomer,Gabriel

TERMSFROMTHETEXTBOOK

1.ChurchofEngland:

EnglishnationalchurchhasbeentheoriginalchurchoftheAnglicanCommunionsincethe16th-centuryProtestantReformation.IthasvaluedandpreservedmuchofthetraditionalframeworkofmedievalRomanCatholicisminchurchgovernmentandcustoms,whileitalsohasusuallyheldthefundamentalsofReformationfaith.

2.Empiricism:

thedoctrinethatallknowledgeofmattersoffactderivesfromexperienceandthatthemindisnotfurnishedwithasetofconceptsinadvanceofexperience.

3.Protestantism:

thereligioussystemofanyoftheChurchesofWesternChristendomthatareseparatedfromtheRomanCatholicChurchandadheresubstantiallytoprinciplesestablishedbyLuther,Calvin,etc.,intheReformation.

4.Puritanism:

Itisareligiousreformmovementinthelate16thand17thcenturiesthatsoughtto“purify”theChurchofEnglandofremnantsoftheRomanCatholic“popery”.PuritanssoughtthroughchurchreformtomaketheirlifestylethepatternforthewholenationandeventotheirAmericancolonies.

5.Enlightenment:

Amovementstartedatthemid-1600sandcametoitshaltbytheendof18century.Itemphasizedtheuseofreasontoreconsideraccepteddoctrinesandtraditionsandthatbroughtaboutmanyhumanitarianreforms.

6.Romanticism:

Itistheartisticmovementthatoriginatedinthesecondhalfofthe18thcenturyinWesternEuropeandstrengtheneditsinfluencetonineteenthcentury.Itwasconcernedwiththeexpressionoftheindividual'sfeelingsandemotions.

7.Realism:

thestyleofartandliteratureinwhichthings,especiallyunpleasantthings,areshownordescribedastheyreallyareinlife.

8.Modernism:

ARomanCatholicmovement,officiallycondemnedin1907,thatattemptedtoexaminetraditionalbeliefaccordingtocontemporaryphilosophy,criticism,andhistoriography.

9.Post-modernism:

Itisalatetwentiethcenturyapproachinart,architecture,andliteraturewhichtypicallymixesstyles,ideas,andreferencestomodernsociety,ofteninanironicway.

10.Deism:

isareligiousandphilosophicalbeliefthatasupremebeingcreatedtheuniverse,andthatthis（andreligioustruthingeneral）canbedeterminedusingreasonandobservationofthenaturalworldalone,withouttheneedforeitherfaithororganizedreligion.

11.AbsenteeGod:

AGodwhocreatedtheuniverseandthenabandonedit.

12.RomanCatholicChurch:

theChristianChurch