ChapterⅢ The Literature of romanticism
1 Chapter Ⅲ The Literature of Romanticism
1. Historical Background Before 1860 the United States had begun to change into an industrial and urban society. In the years preceding the Civil War relatively few volumes of imaginative literature were published in the Us. But as the century progressed American writers won increasing national and international fame Literature ceased to be didactic, a servant of politics and religion. American nationalism stimulated a greater literary interest in American subjects. At mid-century a cultural reawakening brought"flowering of New England, the first literary renaissance in American literary history 2
2 1. Historical Background: ◼ Before 1860 the United States had begun to change into an industrial and urban society. In the years preceding the Civil War relatively few volumes of imaginative literature were published in the US. But as the century progressed, American writers won increasing national and international fame. ◼ Literature ceased to be didactic, a servant of politics and religion. American nationalism stimulated a greater literary interest in American subjects. At mid-century a cultural reawakening brought “flowering of New England” , the first literary renaissance in American literary history
2. The diversity of American romanticism comic fables of Washington Irving gothic tales of Edgar Allen Poe, a the frontier adventures of james fenimore C oober the Psychological romances of Nathanial Hawthorne 3
3 2. The diversity of American romanticism: ◼ comic fables of Washington Irving; ◼ gothic tales of Edgar Allen Poe, ◼ the frontier adventures of James Fenimore Cooper; ◼ the Psychological romances of Nathanial Hawthorne…
3. Washington Irving:(1783-1859) a the first native american author to win worldwide fame a Style: His graceful, humorous, stylistically careful writing is in the tradition of Addison steele and goldsmith colorful legends of the Hudson river 4
4 3. Washington Irving: (1783—1859) ◼ the first native American author to win worldwide fame. ◼ Style: His graceful, humorous, stylistically careful writing is in the tradition of Addison, Steele, and Goldsmith. ◼ colorful legends of the Hudson River Valley
IS stories based on the legends of Europe; lacked a creative gilt, ■ Knickerbocker fictitious author of History of New York by Washington Irving
5 ◼ His stories based on the legends of Europe; lacked a creative gift; ◼ Knickerbocker, fictitious author of History of New York by Washington Irving