1. Historical Background oo Politics dominated the revolutionary phase of American writing The crisis in American life carried by the Revolution made artists self-conscious about American subjects o The spiritual life in the colonies during that period was molded by the bourgeois Enlightenment

The Background of American Realism The fifty years between the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of the First World War Changes in every aspect of American life

Part One: Early American Literature (1620-1770) Chapter 1: The Seventeenth Century Literature (also called the colonial literature) 1. American Puritanism: American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature. It has become, to some extent, so much a state of mind, rather than a set of tenets, so much a part of the national cultural atmosphere that the American breathes, that we may state with a degree of safety that, without some

《美国文学 American Literature》课程教学资源（PPT课件讲稿）Lecture 7 REALISM（1865 - 1914）

Chapter 1 Colonial Period I. Background: Puritanism Chapter 2 American Romanticism Chapter 3 The Age of Realism Chapter 5 The Modern Period Chapter 8 American Naturalism Chapter 9 The Post-War Period: 50s 60s Chapter 10 American Drama Chapter 11 Black American Literature

1. Summary: （全文） One of Hemingway's war and love stories, this novel takes place in Italy during World War I and is tied closely to the author's own experience as an American Ambulance Driver for the Italian Army. The story opens during a lull （暂停）in the action and the reader meets a group of men who work with the wounded during battle. In the course of waiting for action, the protagonist, Henry, meets and courts（求爱） an English nurse stationed in Italy

2. The Great Gatsby (chapter 3, p267 on your textbook) The Great Gatsby's Theme Theme Analysis The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic twentieth-century story of Jay Gatsby's quest for Daisy Buchanan, examines and critiques Gatsby's particular vision of the 1920's American Dream. Written in 1925, the novel

上海交通大学：《历史视野下的美国文化 American Culture Under the Historical Perspective》通识课程教学资源（学生论文）美国内战的原因 On the cause of American Civil war

上海交通大学：《历史视野下的美国文化 American Culture Under the Historical Perspective》通识课程教学资源（学生论文）严一搏 On the causes of American Civil War

上海交通大学：《历史视野下的美国文化 American Culture Under the Historical Perspective》通识课程教学资源（学生论文）舒帆 Causes of American Civil War