美國文學(xué)第一講introductionPre-knowledgeofAmericaandAmericanLiterature21.ThediscoveryofAmerica1)in1492,theItaliannavigatorChristopherColumbus(1451-1506)reachedagroupofislandsnowcalledtheBahamas,mistakingthemforpartofAsia,thuscallingthenativesthereIndians;34562)in1499,anotherItaliannavigator,AmerigoVespucci(1451-1512),confirmedthatanewcontinentratherthanAsiahadbeendiscovered;3)in1507,thenewcontinentwasnamedafterAmerigoVespucci--America72.ThebriefhistoryofEarlyAmerica1)in1607,agroupofEnglishmencametoNorthAmerica,establishingthefirstEnglishcolony,JamestowninVirginia,thusbeginningthenationalhistoryofAmerica;2)in1620,anothergroupofEnglishmengottoNorthAmericainashipcalledthe“Mayflower”andestablishedthePlymouthColonyinNewEngland（consistingofthesixstatesofMaine,NewHampshire,Vermont,Massachusetts,RhodeIsland,andConnecticut.）;8大家學(xué)習(xí)辛苦了，還是要堅持繼續(xù)保持安靜910113)in1630,moreEnglishpeoplemigratedtothecontinentandestablishedtheMassachusettsBayColony;4)upto1773,thirteenEnglishcolonieshadbeenestablishedinAmerica;12135)in1775,theAmericanWarofIndependencebrokeout,andin1783Americagaineditsindependence;6)from1861to1865AmericaexperiencedtheperiodofCivilWar,throughwhichAmericanindependencewasconsolidated;7)from1607tothepresent,Americahasahistoryofroughly400years.14AmericanNobelPrizeWinnersforLiterature1993-ToniMorrison

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-JosephBrodsky1978-IsaacBashevisSinger1976-SaulBellow1962-JohnSteinbeck1954-ErnestHemingway1949-WilliamFaulkner1948-T.S.Eliot1938-PearlBuck1936-EugeneO'Neill1930-SinclairLewis15PeriodsofAmericanLiterature1.TheearlyA.literature(Colonialperiod&earlynationalandrevolutionaryperiod)(1607-1783)2.TheageofRomanticism(1783-1865)3.TheageofRealism&Naturalism(1865-1914)4.A.Lit.betweenthetwowars:1914-1945(modernism)5.ContemporaryA.Lit.:1945-(postmodernism)16TeachingPlanforthewholetermWeek1IntroductionWeek2EarlyAmericanLiteratureWeek3TheWildHoneySuckle

Week4RomanticPeriodWeek5Pre-RomanticWriters(WashingtonIrvingandJamesFenimoreCooper)Week6RipVanWinkle

Week7Transcendentalism17Week8RalphWaldoEmersonWeek9HenryDavidThoreauWeek10WaltWhitman&EmilyDickinson(I)Week11WaltWhitman&EmilyDickinson(II)Week12Dickinson’sPoemsWeek13NathanielHawthorne18Week14TheMinister’sBlackVeilWeek15HermanMelvilleWeek16EdgarAllanPoeWeek17ToHelen19RequirementofthecourseYouaresupposedtodoyourHOMEWORKFinalmarks:classperformance（40%）+finalexam（60%）20classperformanceRegularattendanceClassparticipationOralpresentation21Oralpresentation9groupsTopics1.PhilipFreneau&TheWildHoneySuckle(Week3)2.WashingtonIrving&RipVanWinkle(Week6)3.RalphWaldoEmerson&NatureorTheAmericanScholar(Week8)4.HenryDavidThoreau&Walden(Week9)225.WaltWhitman&Hispoems(Week11)6.EmilyDickinson&Herpoems(Week12)7.NathanielHawthorne&TheMinister’sBlackVeil(Week14)8.HermanMelville&MobyDick(Week15)9.EdgarAllanPoe&HisWorks(Week17)23主要參考書目1.常耀信著,ASurveyofAmericanLiterature(the3ndedition),南開大學(xué)出版社,20032.楊仁敬,