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1、Washington Irving,The Sketch Book,American Romanticism,It stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War.started with the publication of Washington Irvings The Sketch Bookended with Whitmans Leaves of Grass.,Backgrounds of American Romanticism,A.Romantic Movement in Engl
2、and and Europe proved to be a decisive influence;B.Many English and European masters of poetry and prose made stimulating impact on American Romanticism.1).Walter Scott:Waverly novels,The Lady of the Lake 2).Byron:Oriental romances 3).Gothic tradition,the cult of solitude and of gloom,Romanticism,as
3、sociated with imagination and boundlessness,as contrasted with classicism,which is commonly associated with reason and restriction.The most profound and comprehensive idea of romanticism is the vision of a greater personal freedom for the individual.,Romanticism,A.a movement in literature,philosophy
4、,music and art which developed in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries;B.It emphasized individual values and aspirations above those of society as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution;C.It looked to the Middle Ages and to direct contact with nature for inspiration;D.It gave impetus to
5、 the national liberation movement in 19th-century Europe.,American Romanticism,1.Time:the publication of Washington Irvings The Sketch Book(1819)and ended with Whitmans Leaves of Grass(1855);2.It was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism.For romantics,the feelings,intuitions and emotion
6、s were more important than reason and common sense;3.The writers emphasized individualism,placing the individual against the group.They affirmed the inner life of the self,and cherished strong interest in the past,the wild,the remote,the mysterious and the strange.,American Romanticism,4.the writers
7、 stressed the element of“Amerianness”in their works;5.Being a period of the great flowering of American literature,it is also called the American Renaissance;6.American Romanticism is,in a certain way,derivative.,American Romanticism,A.Romanticism celebrates the triumph of feeling and intuition over
8、 reason.It is suspicious of the rationalist explanations of the universe and human nature by the enlightenment writers.B.Since they placed a higher value on the free expression of emotion and on the power of imagination,they showed greater interests in the psychic states.,American Romanticism,C.Roma
9、nticism looked back to the Middle Ages with a nostalgic fascination.Gothic styles,“oriental”styles and other exotic styles were favored by romanticists.D.Romanticism exalted the individual over society,thus showing a strong disliking for the bondage of convention and customs.,American Romanticism,E.
10、Nature is believed to be the source of goodness and antithesis of society as society tends to be corrupt.F.Cultural nationalism-or the proud belief on ones own cultural genius and heritage-is also a striking characteristic of romanticism.,American Renaissance,also called New England Renaissance.a pe
11、riod of the great flowering of American literature,from the 1830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War.It came of age as an expression of a national spirit nationalism.One of the most important influences in the period was that of the Transcendentalism,mainly from Ralph Waldo Emerson,Henr
12、y David Thoreau.,Major writers of American Romanticism,Poets:Henry Wordsworth Long Fellow,Edgar Ellen Poe,Walt Whitman,Emily DickinsonFiction:Washington Irving-comic fablesJames Fenimore Cooper-frontier adventures Nathaniel Hawthorne-psychological romancesEdgar Allen Poe-Gothic tales,Washington Irvi
13、ng(1783-1859),an American author,essayist,biographer and historian of the early 19th century.He is best known for his short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle,both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon,Gent.,Washington Irving(1783-1859),the first American
14、 writers to earn an international reputation Father of the American literature His The Sketch Book marked the beginning of American romanticism,Washington Irvings Life,Irvings birthplace:New York City Family background:a rather wealthy merchant family.Education:a desultory student;reading widely in
15、English literature at home;studying law but showing more interest in literature,Washington Irvings Life,In 1783,Irving was born into a wealthy New York merchant family.From a very early age,he began to read widely and write juvenile poems,essays and plays.Later(1806),he studied law and led for a tim
16、e the leisurely life of a gentleman lawyer.In 1809,his first book A History of New York,written under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker,was a great success and won him wide popularity.,Washington Irvings Life,In 1815,he went to England to take care of his family business there,and when it failed,ha
17、d to write to support himself.In 1826,as an American diplomatic attach,he was sent to Spain,where he gathered material for his writing.From 1829 to 1832,he was secretary of the U.S Legation in London.Then when he was fifty,he returned to America and bought“Sunnyside”,his famous home.There he spent t
18、he rest of his life,living a life of leisure and comfort.He died in 1859.He was not married.,Irving acquired his famous home in Tarrytown,New York,known as Sunnyside,in 1835.He spent his rest life,except for a period of four years(1842-1846).,Irvings grave,II.Literary Achievements,1809:A History of
19、New York纽约外史 1820:The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon,Gent.见闻札记 Two folktales:“Rip Van Winkle”and“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”(睡谷传奇)1822:Bracebridge Hall布雷斯勃列奇庄园 1824:Tales of a Traveller 游客谈 1835:A Tour of the Prairies大草原游记,Comment,The first American author to win international recognition The first
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