★ James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Tales (五个故事的题目)

Natty Bumpo (人物形象)

Chapter 4 New England Transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau

★ Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature (the Bible and manifesto of New England Transcendentalism)

The American Scholar (America’s Declaration of Intellectual

Independence)

★ Henry David Thoreau: Walden, or Life in the Woods

Chapter 5 Hawthorne, Melville

★ Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Twice-Told Tales, The House of the Seven Gables,

The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, Young Goodman Brown

★ Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White Jacket, Pierre

Chapter 6 Whitman, Dickinson

★ Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass; free verse; Song of Myself

★ Emily Dickinson: Of the 1775 poems, only 7 poems were published in her lifetime.

熟悉教材中98至102页所选的诗歌

Chapter 7 Edgar Allan Poe

★ Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, The Raven，To Helen

熟悉教材中107页所选的The Raven中的部分诗行

Chapter 8 The Age of Realism, Howells, James

★ William Dean Howells: The Rise of Silas Lapham, Criticism and Fiction

★ Henry James: important writings listed on P. 125

the international theme

Chapter 9 Local Colorism, Mark Twain

★ Hamlin Garland: Crumbling Idols, Veritism (真实主义)

★ Bret Harte: The Luck of Roaring Camp

★ Mark Twain: 主要作品, vernacular literature, colloquial style

★ Harriet Beecher Stowe 斯托夫人 & her Uncle Tom’s Cabin《汤姆叔叔的小屋》

★ Louisa May Alcott 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特 & her Little Women 《小妇人》

★ Kate Chopin 凯特·肖班 & her The Awakening 《觉醒》

Chapter 10 American Naturalism, Crane, Norris, Dreiser, Robinson

★ Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (the first naturalistic novel in American literature), The

Red Badge of Courage (the first anti-war novel in American literature),

Famous short stories: The Open Boat, The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky

★ Frank Norris: The Octopus, McTeague

★ Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, the Desire Trilogy, The Genius

★ Edwin Arlington Robinson: Richard Cory

★ Jack London: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf, Martin Eden

★ O. Henry (William Sidney Porter): famous for his short stories such as The Gift of the Magi

★ Upton Sinclair: The Jungle, the Muckraking Movement

Chapter 11 The 1920s, Imagism, Pound

★ The first American Renaissance: the first half of the 19th century

★ The second Renaissance: the 1920s