英语专业考试Transcendentalism

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1、AmericanLiteratureMandyZhangTheOutlineofAmericanLiteratureIColonialPeriod(1607—1765)IIRevolutionaryPeriod(1765—1800)IIITheAgeofRomanticism(1800—1865)IVTheAgeofRealism(1865—1918)VAmericanModernism(1918—1945)VIContemporaryLiterature(1945--)TheAgeofRomanticismSectionOne:AmericanR

2、omanticismSectionTwo:NewEnglandTranscendentalismSectionThree:RomanticNovelistsSectionFour:RomanticPoetsSectionFive:EdgarAllanPoeAmericanRomanticismBackgroundsTermsDistinctFeatureofAmericanRomanticismImportantLiteraryFiguresofAmericanRomanticismBackgrounds1nationalinfluences2in

3、ternationalinfluencesnationalinfluencesInpolitics:democracyandpoliticalequalitylaythefoundationofRomanticism;Ineconomics:thespreadofindustrialism;thesuddeninfluxofimmigrationandthepioneerspushingthefrontierfurtherwest;Inculture:thepublicationofWebsterDictionarymarkedthebeginni

4、ngoftheAmericanEnglish;theappearanceofmanymagazinesandnewspapers;internationalinfluences①RomanticMovementinEnglandandEuropeprovedtobeadecisiveinfluence;②ManyEnglishandEuropeanmasterofpoetryandprosemadestimulatingimpactonAmericanRomanticism.TermsRomanceEmotionallyheightened,sym

5、bolicAmericannovelsassociatedwiththeRomanticperiod.RomanticismRomanticismamovementofthe18thand19thcentury.Itisthepredominanceofimaginationoverreasonandformalrulesandoverthesenseoffactortheactual,apsychologicaldesiretoescapefromunpleasantrealities.DetailedInformationRomanticism

6、wasamovementinliterature,philosophy,musicandartwhichdevelopedinEuropeinthelate18thandearly19thcenturies.ItemphasizedindividualvaluesandaspirationsabovethoseofsocietyasareactiontotheIndustrialRevolution.ItlookedtotheMiddleAgesandtodirectcontactwithnatureforinspiration.Itgaveimp

7、etustothenationalliberationmovementin19th-centuryEurope.DistinctFeatureofAmericanRomanticism1Itwastheexpressionof“arealnewexperience”andcontained“analienquality”forthesimplereasonthat“thespiritoftheplace”wasradicallynewandalien.2IttendedtobedidacticbecauseofPuritaninfluence.3I

8、twasbothimitativeandindependent.ImportantLiteraryFiguresofAme