American Literature

英语语言文学考研美国文学复习框架： Colonial and Revolutionary Period(1607-1765-1800)、American Romanticism（1800-1836-1855-1865）、American Realism（1865-1914）、The 20 Century American Literature(1914-1945)、Modern Period(1945-)

American Literature

• Colonial and Revolutionary Period(1607-1765-1800)
  • Social background
    • First permanent English settlement: Virginia(1607)
      • John Smith
    • Mayflower/Plymouth Plantation(1620)
      • William Braford
    • Massachusetts Bay Colony(1629)
      • John Winthrop
    • The United States of American(1776)
      • Thomas Jefferson
        • Declaration of Indenpendence
  • Major features
    • American puritianism
      • Features
        • Predestination
        • Original
        • Total depravity
        • Limited atonement
      • Influences
        • Garden of Eden
        • Literary symbolism
        • Writing style
  • Literary Terms
    • 1. American puritanism
    • 2. Autobiography
  • Representative authors and works
    • Early Poets
      • Anne Bradstreet
        • ''Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up' in America“
      • Edward Taylor
    • Jonathan Edwards
      • Transcendentalist
    • Benjamin Franklin
      • Title
        • ”Jak of All Trades“
        • “Founding Father of the United States of America”
      • Works
        • Poor Richards's Almanack
        • The Autobiography
    • Thomas Paine
      • Title
        • "Father of American Revolution"
      • Works
        • Common Sense
        • The American Crisis
        • The Rights of Man
        • The Age of Reason
    • Philip Freneau
      • Title
        • "poet of the American Revolution"
        • "father of American poetry"
      • Works
        • The Rising Glory of American
        • The Wild Honey Suckle
        • The Indian Burying Ground
    • Thomas Jefferson
      • Title
        • "the third president of the United States"
      • Works
        • Declaration of Indenpendence
• American Romanticism（1800-1836-1855-1865）
  • Social background
    • 1. the spread of industrialism, the development of the new technology, the migration of vast workers
    • 2. Civil war(1861-1865)
    • 3. Magazines and publications were booming
    • 4. the industrial revolution
    • 5. western expansion
  • Major features
    • 1. American literature had the characteristics of imitation and indenpendence.
    • 2. freedom, expansion, individualism
    • 3. American authors were more likely to moralize.
  • Literary Terms
    • 1. American Romanticism
    • 2. American Transcendentalism
    • 3. Feee Verse
    • 4. Symbolism
  • Representative authors and works
    • Early American Romanticism
      • Washington Irving
        • Title
          • "father of the American short story"
          • "father of American imaginative literature"
          • "father of American literature"
        • Writing style
          • humor
          • imagination
          • musically
        • Works
          • The Sketch Book
          • Rip Van Winkle
          • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
      • James Fennimore Cooper
        • Writing style
          • 子主题
        • Works
          • Lestherstocking Tales
          • The Pioneers
          • The Last of the Mohicans
    • Transcendentalism
      • Ralph Waldo Emerson
        • Major idea
        • Works
          • Nature
          • The American Scholar
          • The transcendentalist
          • The Conduct of Life
      • Henry David Thoreau
        • Major idea
        • Works
          • Walden
          • Civil Disobedience
      • Herman Melville
        • Major idea
        • Works
          • Moby Dick
      • Nathaniel Hawthrone
        • Major idea
        • Works
          • The Scarlet Letter
          • The House of Seven Gables
          • Young Good Man Brown
      • Edgar Allan Poe
        • Major idea
        • Works
          • To Helen
          • The Raven
          • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
          • The Fall of the House of Usher
      • Walt whitman
        • Major idea
        • Works
          • Leaves of Grass
      • Emily Dickinson
        • Major idea
        • Works
          • Because I Can Not Stop for Death
          • I heard a Fly Buzz- When I Died
          • This is my Letter to the World
          • I like to See It Lap the Miles
    • Others
      • William Cullen Byrant
        • Title
          • He is the first American writer of verse to win international acclaim
          • American Wordsworth
        • Works
          • Thanatopsis
          • To a Waterfowl
      • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
        • Writing Feature
          • native theme
        • Works
          • My Lost Youth
          • The Song of Hiawatha
          • Poems on Slavery
          • A Psalm of Life
      • Harriet Beecher Stowe
        • Title
          • She is an anti-slavery woman writer.
        • Works
          • Uncle Tom's Cabin
• American Realism（1865-1914）
  • Social background
    • 1. Civil War(1861-1865)
      • The gap between the extremely poor and extremely rich was going to widen.
    • 2. Western Expansion
  • Major features
    • 1. A more essential discussion of society and humanity
    • 2. Depict the life of poor people/Be faithful to life
  • Literary Terms
    • Ameerican Naturalism
    • American Realism
    • Local Colorism
  • Representative authors and works
    • Realism Writers
      • William Dean Howells
        • Works
          • The Rise of Silas Lapham
          • Criticism and Fiction
          • A Modern Instance
          • A Hazard of New Fortunes
      • Henry James
        • Works
          • The American
          • Daisy Miller
          • The Potrait of a Ldy
          • The Wings of the Dove
          • The Golden Bowl
          • The Art of Fiction
    • Local Colorism Writers
      • Mark Twain
        • Writing style
        • Works
          • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
          • The Gilded Age
          • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
          • The Adventures of Huckberry Finn
          • Life on the Mississippi
      • Bret Harte
        • Work
          • The Luck of Roaring Camp
      • Hamlin Garland
        • 子主题
          • Title
            • Putizer Prize
    • Naturalism Writers
      • Stephen Crane
        • Works
          • Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
          • The Red Badge of Courage
          • The Open Boat
        • 子主题
      • Frank Norris
        • Works
          • Mcteague
          • The Epic of the Wheat
        • 子主题
      • Theodore Dreiser
        • Works
          • Sister Carrie
          • Jennie Gerhardt
          • An American Tragedy
        • 子主题
      • Jack London
        • Works
          • The Call of the Wild
          • White Fang
          • Martin Eden
          • The Law of Life
        • 子主题
      • O. Henry
        • Works
          • The Cop and the Anthem
          • The Last Leaf
          • The Gift of the Magi
          • The Ranson of the Red Chief
        • 子主题
• The 20 Century American Literature(1914-1945)
  • Social background
    • the outburst of WW1
    • Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties/the dollar decade
    • the alcohol probition
  • Major features
    • Innovation in content and form
      • Poetry
        • Imagism
      • Novel
        • Disillusionment after the war
    • Literature was influenced by psychology
  • Literary Terms
    • The Beat Generation
    • Hemingway Code Hero
    • Imagism
    • The Lost Generation
  • Representative authors and works
    • The 1920s
      • Ezra Pound
        • Works
          • Cathay
          • The Cantos
          • In a Station of the Metro
        • 子主题
      • William Carlos Williams
        • Works
          • In the American Grain
          • Peterson
          • The Red Wheelbarrow
        • 子主题
      • Robert Frost
        • Works
          • The Road Not Taken
          • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
          • Mending Wall
          • Fire and Ice
          • After Apple-Picking
          • North of Boston
        • 子主题
      • T.S. Eliot
        • Works
          • The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
          • The Waste Land
          • Hollow Man
        • 子主题
      • Wallace Stevens
        • Works
          • Harmonium
          • The Man with the Blue Guiter
          • Collected Poems
      • Carl Sandburg
        • Works
          • Fog
          • Flash Crimson
          • The Harbor
      • E.E.Cummings
        • Works
          • Tulips and Chimneys
      • F.Scoot Fitzgerald
        • Works
          • The Beautiful and the Damned
          • Tender is the Night
          • This Side of Paradise
          • The Great Gtsby
        • 子主题
      • Ernest Hemingway
        • Works
          • A Farewell to Arm
          • The Sun Also Rises
          • For Whom the Bell Tolls
          • The Old Man And the Sea
        • 子主题
      • Sinclair Lewis
        • Works
          • Main Street
          • Babbitt
        • Title
          • He is the first American author to win the Nobel Prize
      • Sherwood Anderson
        • Works
          • Winesburg
        • Title
          • first American psychological writers
      • Willa Cather
        • Works
          • O Pionners!
          • The Professor's House
      • William Faulkner
        • Works
          • The Sound and the Fury
          • As I Lay Dying
          • A Rose for Emily
          • Light in August
        • 子主题
    • The 1930s
      • John Dos Passos
        • Works
          • U.S.A(Trilogy)
        • Title
          • He is the leading naturalist of the Depression
      • John Steinbeck
        • Works
          • Of Mice and Men
          • The Grapes of Wrath
        • 子主题
      • Katherine Anne Poter
        • Works
          • Flowering of Judas
    • American Drama
      • Eugene O'Neill
        • Works
          • Beyond the Horizon
          • The Emperor Jones
          • The Hairy Ape
          • The Iceman Cometh
          • Long Day's Journey into Night
        • 子主题
      • Arthur Miller
        • Works
          • All My Sons
          • Death of a Salesman
        • 子主题
      • Edward Albee
        • Works
          • Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf
        • Writing style
          • theater of Absurd
• Modern Period(1945-)
  • Social background
    • post-war prosperity
    • Cold War
  • Representative authors and works
    • Norman Miller
      • Works
        • The Naked and the Dead
    • John Updike
      • Works
        • Rabbit, Run
        • Rabbit, Redux
        • Rabbit IS Rich
      • Title
        • Pulitzer Prize
        • novelist, poet, short-story writer,art critica and literary critic
    • Joseph Heller
      • Works
        • Catch-22
        • As Good as Gold
      • Title
        • novelist,short-story writer and playwright
    • Kurt Vonnegut Jr
      • Works
        • Cat's Cradle
    • Eudora Welty
      • Works
        • The Optimist's Daughter
      • Pulitzer Prize
    • Saul Bellow
      • Works
        • Dangling Man
        • Seize the Day
        • Herzog
      • Title
        • Nobel Prize
    • Philip Roth
      • Works
        • Goodbye, Columbus
    • J.D.Salinger
      • Works
        • Cather in the Rye
    • Jack Kerouac
      • Works
        • On the Road
      • Title
        • a pioneer of the Beat Generation
    • John Cheever
      • Works
        • The Enormous Radio and Other Stories
      • Title
        • short-story writer
    • Vladimie Nabokov
      • Works
        • Lolita
      • Title
        • short-story writer
    • Ralph Ellison
      • Works
        • Invisibke Man
    • Richard Wright
      • Works
        • Native Son
        • The Outsider
    • Toni Morrison
      • Works
        • The Bluest Eye
        • Song of Solomon
        • Beloved
      • Title
        • She is a Nobel Prize-and-Pulitzer Prize-winning American Novelist.
    • Alice Walker
      • Works
        • The Color Purple
    • Allen Ginsberg
      • Works
        • Howl
        • A Supermarket in California
    • Tennessee Williams
      • Works
        • The Glass Menagerie
        • A streetcar Named Desire
      • Title
        • His plays potray the loneliness and isolation of modern man.