American Literature 美国文学.doc

American Literature Authors and Works
Benjamin Franklin:
A modest inquiry into the nature and necessity of a paper money
Poor Richard’s Almanack (use the name Richard Saunders)
The way to wealth.
The autobiography (1868)
Tomas Paine:
Common sense
Crisis, (renamed as American crisis)
Rights of man (protest for the French revolutionary); chapter 1 Downfall of despotism
The age of reason (protest against the Jews’ religion)
Philip Freneau 弗伦诺:
To the memory of the brave American
The wild honeysuckle
James Fenimore Cooper
The spy
The pioneer 拓荒者, The last of the Mohicans 最后的莫西干人, The Prairie 大草原, The pathfinder 探路人, The deerslayer 杀鹿者(combined as Leatherstocking tales)
The pilot
Edgar Allan Poe:
The fall of the house of Usher, Ligeia (roma)
To Helen, The city in the sea
The philosophy position
4. Annabel Lee
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Nature 论自然, The American Scholar 论美国学者, Divinity school address 神学院演说, The over-soul 论超心灵, Self reliance 论自立, the Transcendentalist 超验主义者(address scripture)
Concord hymn, The Rhodora 杜鹃花, The humble bees 野蜂, Days 日子.( poem)
Representative men 代表人物, English Traits. 英国人的特征
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Twice told tales 尽人皆知的故事,
Mosses from an old manse 古屋青苔(stories)
The scarlet letter
The house of the seven gables 有7个尖角阁的房子
The Blithedale romance 福谷传奇
The marble faun 玉石雕像
Henry David Thoreau:
Resistance to civil government (renamed as civil disobedience)
A week on the concord and Merrimack Rivers
Walden, or life in the woods
Walt Whitman:
Song of myself, Song of the Broad-axe, I hear America singing, When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d 小院***开时(collected as Leaves of grass)
Democratic Vistas 民主的前景, The tramp and strike question 流浪汉和罢工问题(poetry)
Herman Melville:
Moby Dick, or the White Whale (masterpiece)
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Uncle Tom’s cabin
A key to Uncle Tom’s cabin
Dread: A tale of the great dismal swamp
The minister’s wooing
The pearl of Orr’s island
Oldtown folks
Frederick Douglass:
My bondage