(2)All humanity is naturally good:"Nature has implanted in our breasts a love of other of duty to then ,a moral instinc -afraid that the commercial pressure of city life would destroy this goodness-saw another threat to American democracy in the thinking of the "Federalists (Jefferson's extreme democracy) 2.基本概今和知识点 the Founding Fathers;Declaration of Independence;Benjamin Franklin,Thomas s Jefferson What are the beliefs and ideas of the Founding Fathers? (三)思考与实践 How does the declaratio 《四)教学方法与手段 n of Independence help shape the American Value today? 1.教学方法：课堂讲授与讨论相结合 2.教学手段：多媒体课件 Lecture Three The rise of a national Literature (一)目的与要求 了解美国民族文学的形成过程 2 研究欧文、库伯和布莱恩特的代表作 (二)教学内容 1.主要内容 I.three different points of View about how American literature should grow 1.call for an 2.a new branch of English literature 3.a universal literature II.the greatest American writers 1.combined the best qualities ofthe:literature of the Old and New Worlds ve ther works the univ II Novels-the first popular literature of the newly independent United States 1.The first American novel;William Hill Brown,Power of Sympathy(1789). 2.The first important American novel:Modern Chivalry (1792-1815)by Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816) IV.The"Knickerbocker era"(1810-1840)of American literature 1.Washington Irving(1783-1859) (1)A History of New York,by Diedrick Knickerbocker(1809) -gives the region of New York City a special"local color". -a masterpiece of comedy which laughs at the Puritans and at New York's s early Dutch governors (2)The Sketch Book(1819) 32 stories in all,including two of the best-loved stories from American literature: Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -The plots of both stories are based on old German folk tales,but Irving fills them with the "local color"of New York's Hudson River Valley. 6 6 (2) All humanity is naturally good: “Nature has implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct” -afraid that the commercial pressure of city life would destroy this goodness-saw another threat to American democracy in the thinking of the “Federalists” (Jefferson’s extreme democracy) 2. 基本概念和知识点 the Founding Fathers; Declaration of Independence; Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson 3.问题与应用 What are the beliefs and ideas of the Founding Fathers? （三）思考与实践 How does the Declaration of Independence help shape the American Value today? （四）教学方法与手段 1. 教学方法：课堂讲授与讨论相结合 2. 教学手段：多媒体课件 Lecture Three The Rise of a National Literature （一） 目的与要求 1. 了解美国民族文学的形成过程； 2. 研究欧文、库伯和布莱恩特的代表作。 （二） 教学内容 1. 主要内容 I. three different points of View about how American literature should grow: 1 . call for a national literature 2. a new branch of English literature 3. a universal literature II. the greatest American writers 1 . combined the best qualities of the: literature of the Old and New Worlds 2. gave their works the universality of great literature III . Novels-the first popular literature of the newly independent United States 1. The first American novel; William Hill Brown, Power of Sympathy (1789). 2. The first important American novel: Modern Chivalry (1792-1815) by Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816) IV. The “Knickerbocker era” (1810-1840) of American literature 1. Washington Irving (1783-1859) (1) A History of New York, by ‘Diedrick Knickerbocker (1809) -gives the region of New York City a special “local color". . -a masterpiece of comedy which laughs at the Puritans and at New York's s early Dutch governors (2) The Sketch Book (1819) -32 stories in all, including two of the best - loved stories from American literature: Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - The plots of both stories are based on old German folk tales, but Irving fills them with the “local color” of New York's Hudson River Valley