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1、Unit 7 America LiteratureEarly FictionThe post-Revolutionary period.nWashington Irving: History of New York, Tour on Prairies.nJames Fenimore Cooper: The Spy, the Leather-Stocking Tales (containing The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer)Transcendental
2、istsnRalph Waldo Emerson: Nature nHenry David Thoreau: WaldenPower of ImaginationnEdgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of Red Death” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”nNathaniel Hawthorne: Twice-Told Tales, The Scarlet LetternHerman Melville: Moby-Dick (considered as Americans greatest novel)New Vision of
3、 AmericanWalt Whitman: Leave of Grass is egotism (one main poem is called “Song of Myself”).Reform and LiberationnFrederick DouglassnHarriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Toms Cabin Regionalism(地方主义) nWilliam Dean Howells: Atlantic magazinenMark Twain (real name Samuel Clemens) The Connecticut Yankee in King
4、 Arthur Court, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (his greatest book)nEmily DickinsonA New WavenHenry James: The American, Portrait of a lady, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.nEmile Zola: The Rise of Silas LaphamnStephen Crane: Maggie, A Girl of the Street nTheodore Dreise
5、r: Sister Carrie, The Red Badge of CouragenUpton Sinclair: The JunglenJack London: Call of the WildnEdith Wharton: The House of Mirth, The Age of InnocencenKate Chopin: The AwakeningnWilla Cather: O Pioneers!nW. E. B. Du Bois: Souls of Black FolkRebellious SpiritnSherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio a
6、nd Main StreetnSinclair Lewis (the first American who won the Nobel Prize in 1930): Babbitt and ArrowsmithThe Modernists and the Lost GenerationImagismnEzra PoundnT. S. Eliot: The Waste Landne.e.cummingnWallace StevensnWilliam Carlos WilliamsThe Lost GenerationnF.Scott Fitzgerald: The Great GatsbynE
7、rnest Hemingway (also won the Nobel Prize): The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls.nWilliam Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury(1929), As I Lay Dying(1930), Light in August(1932), and Absalom, Absalom!(1936). He used the stream of consciousness, multiple points of view, symb
8、olism and imagery. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.Harlem RenaissancenLangston HughesnCountee CullennZora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God(1937)New DramanEugene ONeill: Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh and Long Days Journey into Night .ONeil
9、l won a Nobel Prize in 1936 for literature.Depression, Postwar Voices and the “Beat Generation”DepressionnJohn Steinbeck: The Grapes of WrathnRichard Wright: Native SonAfrican-AmericannRalph Ellison: Invisible MannJames Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next TimeJews nSaul BellownIsaa
10、c Bashevis Singer Bellow and Singer won the Nobel PrizenTillie Olsen: Tell Me a RiddleTheaternTennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie, DesirenArthur Miller: Death of a Salesman The Beat GenerationnAlan Ginsberg: HowlnJ.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the RyeNative American LiteraturenZitkala Sa: Old Ind
11、ian LegendsnMourning Dove: Cogewea, the Half-BreednDArcy McNickle: The Surrounded nN. Scott Momaday: House Made of Dawn and The Way to Rainy Mountain (regarded as sparking the beginning of the Native American Renaissance).New American VoicesnToni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She won the Nobel Prize in 1993,the first African-American writer to receive this honor.nMaxine Hong Kingston (Chinese-American): The Woman Warrior and China MennAmy Tan (Chinese-American ): The Joy Luck Club
