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1、Irving,Cooper,Thoreau,Emersn,Hawthorn,Melville,Poe,WhitmanPartTwoAmericanRomanticismChapterOneIntroduction,Irving,CooperI.TeachingContents1.IntroductiontoRomanticism2.AccountofIrving’sandCooper’slifestoriesandtheirachievement.3.Analysisof“RipVanWinkle”II.TheImpor

2、tantPoints:1)Romanticism2)Irving,CooperIII.Difficulties:1)Romanticism2)ThewritingskillsofIrvingandCooperIV.TeachingMethods1.Questioning2.Discussing3.CAITeachingSteps:Backgroundinformation1.PoliticalbackgroundandeconomicdevelopmentThedevelopmentoftheAmericansociet

3、ynurtured“theliteratureofagreatnation.”Politically,democracyandequalitybecametheidealofthenewnation,andthetwo-partysystemcameintobeing.Economically,thewholenationwasexperiencinganindustrialtransformation,whichaffectedtheruralaswellastheurbanlife.Historically,itwa

4、sthetimeofwestwardexpansion.Thus,withastrongsenseofoptimismandthemoodof“feelinggood”ofthewholenation,aspectacularoutburstofromanticfeelingwasbroughtaboutinthefirsthalfofthe19thcentury.背景资料TheTreatyofParisin1783putanendtotheAmericanRevolution;thevictoryof37Irving,

5、Cooper,Thoreau,Emersn,Hawthorn,Melville,Poe,WhitmantheAmericanpeoplegainedforthemselvestherighttoestablishanindependentnationandbroughtthehistoryofAmericaintoanewage.OnApril30,1789,GeorgeWashingtonstoodonthebalconyofFederalHallinWallStreettotaketheoathofofficeas

6、thefirstpresidentoftheUnitedStates.Washington'sgovernmentconsistedofsuchoutstandingpoliticiansasThomasJefferson,JohnAdams,AlexanderHamilton,andEdmundRandolph,thepurposeforwhichWashingtonorganizedsuchagovernmentwasnoneotherthanadeliberateefforttounitethetwopolitic

7、allyconflictingparties,sinceJeffersonandRandolphwereunderstoodtobeofAntifederalistviews,whileHamiltonofFederalistbent.Washingtonhaddoneagreatworkinestablishingthegovernmentandmakingitstrong.TheoutbreakoftheFrenchRevolutionconsideredbymanyasacontinuationofthetheA

8、mericanRevolutiongavetheAmericansmoreconfidenceinestablishinganindependent,democraticnationoftheirown,butontheotherhanditalsochallengedtheunityofthegovernment,