美国文学复习.docx

1、美国文学复习THE CHARACTERS OF CERTAIN WORKS1. Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford (1590-1657)2. Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790):William Franklin, Parents , James Franklin , John Collins , Andrew Bradford, Samuel Keimer, John Read, Deborah Read, Gov. William Keith, James Ralph, Mr. Denham

2、, Meredith, 3. Poor Richards Almanac, Benjamin Franklin4. Common Sense, Thomas Paine (1737-1809)5. Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)6. Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving (1783-1859): Rip Van Winkle ,Dame Van Winkle ,Rip, Judith Gardenier, Derrick Van Bummel ,Nicholas Vedder, M

3、r. Doolittle, Wolf , The Ghosts of Henry Hudson and his crew7. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving8. A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker, Washington Irving9. The Leather-Stocking Series, James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851):1) The Pioneers (1823) : Nathaniel Natty Bumppo, Judge M

4、armaduke Temple, Elizabeth Bess Temple, Richard Dick Jones, Squire Hiram Doolittle, etc.2) The Last of the Mohicans (1826) 3) The Prairie (1827) 4) The Pathfinder (1840) 5) The Deerslayer (1841) 10. essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882):1) Self-Reliance;2) Essays: First Series (1841);3) Essays: Se

5、cond Series (1844);4) Poems (1847);5) English Trait (1856);6) The Conduct of Life (1860);11. books, Ralph Waldo Emerson:1) Nature;2) Nature, Address, and Lectures (1849)(conpilation);3) Journals (Published after death);4) Letters (Published after death);12. books, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862):1)

6、Walden (1854);Henry David Thoreau , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Alex Therien , John Field , Amos Bronson Alcott , William Ellery Channing , Henry Clay , Lidian Emerson , James Russell Lowell , Mencius ,2) Excursions (1863);3) The Maine Woods (1864);4) Cape Cod (1865);5) A Yankee in Canada (1866);13. other

7、 works, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862):1) Resistance to Civil Government;2) A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers;3) Civil Disobedience;14. The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)15. The Philosophy of Composition, Edgar Allan Poe16. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthrne (1804-1864): Hester Pry

8、nne , Pearl, Roger Chillingworth , Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale , Governor Bellingham , Mistress Hibbins , 17. Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1819-1891): Ishmael , Ahab , Moby Dick , Starbuck , Queequeg , Stubb , Tashtego , Flask ,Daggoo , Pip , Fedallah , Peleg , Bildad , Father Mapple , Captain Boomer

9、, Gabriel TERMS FROM THE TEXTBOOK1. Church of England: English national church has been the original church of the Anglican Communion since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. It has valued and preserved much of the traditional framework of medieval Roman Catholicism in church government and cu

10、stoms, while it also has usually held the fundamentals of Reformation faith.2. Empiricism: the doctrine that all knowledge of matters of fact derives from experience and that the mind is not furnished with a set of concepts in advance of experience.3. Protestantism: the religious system of any of th

11、e Churches of Western Christendom that are separated from the Roman Catholic Church and adhere substantially to principles established by Luther, Calvin, etc., in the Reformation.4. Puritanism: It is a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church o

12、f England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery”. Puritans sought through church reform to make their lifestyle the pattern for the whole nation and even to their American colonies.5. Enlightenment: A movement started at the mid-1600s and came to its halt by the end of 18 century. It emphasized

13、the use of reason to reconsider accepted doctrines and traditions and that brought about many humanitarian reforms.6. Romanticism: It is the artistic movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe and strengthened its influence to nineteenth century. It was concern

14、ed with the expression of the individuals feelings and emotions.7. Realism: the style of art and literature in which things, especially unpleasant things, are shown or described as they really are in life.8. Modernism: A Roman Catholic movement, officially condemned in 1907, that attempted to examin

15、e traditional belief according to contemporary philosophy, criticism, and historiography.9. Post-modernism: It is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.10. Deism: is a relig

16、ious and philosophical belief that a supreme being created the universe, and that this (and religious truth in general) can be determined using reasonand observation of the natural world alone, without the need for either faith or organized religion.11. Absentee God: A God who created the universe and then abandoned it.12. Roman Catholic Church: the Christian Church