Washington Irving (1783-1859) The story“Rip Van Winkle”is set before and after the American Revolution.The protagonist falls asleep in the mountain and wakes up to discover shocking changes:the American has taken place
Washington Irving（1783-1859） The story “Rip Van Winkle” is set before and after the American Revolution. The protagonist falls asleep in the mountain and wakes up to discover shocking changes: the American has taken place
I.Early Fiction James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851):Cooper's The Pioneers was the first of the five great romances known as the Leather- Stocking Tales.The author introduced in The Pioneers the fabulous woodsman,Natty Bumppo.He was the forerunner of all heroic forest scouts,bear hunters,and cowboys of later American novels and films.The Last of the Mohicans,The Prairie,The Pathfinder,and The Deerslayer pursued Natty's career both forward and backward in time,from the first flush of manhood to his death as an old man on the western plains. He also imagined a bi-cultural and bi-racial friendship between Natty Bumppo and a Native American warrior, thereby projecting the fulfillment of the democratic dream which persists in American literature
I. Early Fiction • James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851): Cooper’s The Pioneers was the first of the five great romances known as the LeatherStocking Tales. The author introduced in The Pioneers the fabulous woodsman, Natty Bumppo. He was the forerunner of all heroic forest scouts, bear hunters, and cowboys of later American novels and films. The Last of the Mohicans , The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer pursued Natty’s career both forward and backward in time, from the first flush of manhood to his death as an old man on the western plains. He also imagined a bi-cultural and bi-racial friendship between Natty Bumppo and a Native American warrior, thereby projecting the fulfillment of the democratic dream which persists in American literature
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) Natty Bumppo,although the child of white parents,grew up among Delaware Indians and was educated by Moravian Christians,becoming a fearless warrior
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) Natty Bumppo, although the child of white parents, grew up among Delaware Indians and was educated by Moravian Christians, becoming a fearless warrior
II.Major Writers of the 19th Century ·Ralph Waldo Emerson ·Henry David Thoreau ·Nathaniel Hawthorne ·Herman Melville ·Walt Whitman ·Mark Twain ·Emily Dickenson
II. Major Writers of the 19th Century • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Henry David Thoreau • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Herman Melville • Walt Whitman • Mark Twain • Emily Dickenson
II.Major Writers of the 19th Century Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882):In 1836 Emerson published his book Nature.In this work,Emerson claimed that by studying and responding to nature individuals could reach a higher spiritual state without formal religion.He was the representative of a circle of intellectuals who gathered around him,as"the Transcendentalists,based on their acceptance of Emerson's theories about spiritual transcendence.Emerson's other major work includes "The American Scholar"and "Self- Reliance".Emerson wrote on a number of subjects,developing certain ideas such as individuality,freedom,the ability for humankind to realize almost anything,and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world
II. Major Writers of the 19th Century • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): In 1836 Emerson published his book Nature. In this work, Emerson claimed that by studying and responding to nature individuals could reach a higher spiritual state without formal religion. He was the representative of a circle of intellectuals who gathered around him, as “the Transcendentalists, based on their acceptance of Emerson’s theories about spiritual transcendence. Emerson’s other major work includes “The American Scholar” and “SelfReliance”. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world