美国文学浪漫主义时期

美国文学浪漫主义时期思维导图，英文版，主要分为background和representatives两大板块。

romanticism

• background
  • Intellectual background
  • features
    • emotion and imagination
    • nature
    • puritanism
    • both initiative and distinctive, derivative and independent
    • nostalgic
    • focus on individualism
• representatives
  • Benjamin Franklin
    • his contributions
      • to society
      • to science
      • to the US
    • evaluation
    • his work
      • Autobiography
        • firsts
          • first popular self-book
          • written in American before the 19th
          • major secular American autobiography
        • writing style
          • genuine humanness
          • humor
          • terseness
          • plainness and homeliness
        • significance
          • the first example of American Dream
          • one of the premier autobiographies in the English language
          • tells us what life was like in18th century
          • a reflection of 18th century idealism
          • the promient work that myhologizes a hero of the American Revolution
  • Philip Freanue
    • Father of American Poetry
    • representative
      • The Wild Suckle
  • Washington Iving
    • The father of American Literature
    • short story written essayist poet
    • his work
      • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
      • Rip Van Winkle
  • James Fenimore Cooper
    • his works
      • The Pioneers
      • The Last of the Mohicans
      • The Prairie
      • The Pathfinder
      • The Deerslayer
    • writing features
      • Plot construction
      • Landscape description
      • A rich imagination
      • Clumsy style
  • Rap god Waldo Emerson
    • poet essayist philosopher major representative of the American Transcendental Movement
  • Jerry David Thoreau
    • work
      • Walden
        • four seasons
        • narrative, the minimum essential of food and shelter
        • reflection
        • his own revolt：materialism，objected to the division of labor
        • is a great transcendentalism work
    • evaluation
      • His influence goes beyond America
      • is regarded as a prophet of individualism
      • civilized man is the slave of matter
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • point of view
      • Evil is at the core of human life.
      • Whenever there is sin，there is punishment.
      • Evil educates
      • has disgust in science
    • works
      • The Scarlet Letter
        • Character analysis
          • Hester Prynne
          • Dimmesdale
          • Chilingworth
          • Pearl
        • Symbolism
          • the meaning development of A
        • themes
          • Sin rejection redemption
          • self-respect
          • hypocrisy and cowardice
          • good from evil
          • revenge
          • rigidity and legalism
        • aesthetic ideas
        • Sthle-typical romantic writer
          • the use of symbols
          • psychology
          • the use of supernatural
          • parable :to teach a lesson
          • use of ambiguity
  • Walt Whitman
    • position
    • work
      • Leaves of Grass
        • nine editions
        • symbol of grass
          • the common people
          • their spirit
          • the eternity
          • the equality
          • youth and hope
          • the poet and his poems
        • major artistic features
          • poetic features
            • parallelism
            • phonetic recurrence
            • catalogue technique
            • free verse
            • envelope structure
          • language features
            • simple and rather crude
            • honest and undistorted images
            • the use of oral Englisht
            • powerful,colorful words. Words of foreign origin and even wrong words.
      • Song of Myself
        • theme
          • a world of equality and democracy
          • identification
          • nature and universe
        • imag s and symbols
        • analysis
          • the theory of universality
          • singularity and equality of all beings in value
    • writing features
      • free verse
      • the range of subjects is remarkable vand international
      • make his poetry original,revolutionary and American
    • whitman's theme
      • celebrate democracy and freedom
      • celebrate human individual power and greatness of common people
      • praise the great nature
      • be full of patriotic feeling
  • EdgarAllan Poe
    • works
      • best known fiction works
        • Gothic
      • poetry
        • Annabel Lee To Helen
        • Lenore
        • The Raven
    • writing features
      • Gothic tales
        • The Fall of the House of Usher
          • central theme
            • terror
          • symbolism
      • death
      • symbols
      • psychological states decipt
      • subconscious condition
  • Herman Melville
    • work
      • Moby Dick
        • the story of Moby Dick
        • symbolism
          • Voyage a metaphor
          • Ahab the evil and dark part of human mind
          • Period doom and death American society or human world
          • Moby Dick
            • evil death corruption
            • the embodiment of the mysterious nature or universe
            • God
        • themes
          • the sense of futility and meaninglessness of the world
          • allenation
          • loneliness and suicidal individualism
          • rejection and quest
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    • work
      • Voices of the Night 夜籁集
      • Hiawatha 海华沙之歌
      • A Psalm of Life 人生礼赞
      • theme
        • no waste time
        • no fear of death
        • no afraid of the unknown future
      • styles
        • purity gentleness musicality simplicity directness moralization sentimentality sweetness