美国文学史概论之四：现实主义文学

nullIV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.1 The High-tide of Realistic novels IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.1 The High-tide of Realistic novels Realists: Henry James and his psychological realism William Dean Howells and his moral realism Local Colorists: Mark Twain and other Local colorists (regionalism) - Frances Bret Harte, The Luck of the Roaring Camp (1968) The Outcasts of Poker Flat - Hamlin Garland, Much-Traveled Roads A Son of the Middle Border, Crumbling Idols. Naturalists: Frank Norris, Stephan Crane, Jack London Theodore Dreiser and his naturalist novels E.A. Robinson and naturalist poetry: The Man Against the Sky “Richard Cory”, “Miniver Cheevy”IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.2 New Poetical Development: Regional Poetry IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.2 New Poetical Development: Regional Poetry Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as the Titanic Figures William Moody, An Ode in Time of Hesitation, The Menagerie Sidney Lanier, a musical poet, To Beethoven, Corn, The Symphony Edgar Lee Masters and his Spoon River Anthology Amy Lowell, A Dome of Many-Colored Glass, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed, “Autumn Haze” Paul Hamilton Hayne,“Southern Laureate”, Midsummer in the South Edwin Markham,The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln and Other Poems Lizette Reese, Tears, A Branch of May, A Handful of Lavender Anna H. Branch, The Shoes That Danced, Rose of the Wind IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.3 Afro-American literary scene IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.3 Afro-American literary scene Abolitionists and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1851), The Minister’s Wooing, Oldtown Folks, Dred Other abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Highland Garnet, Wendell Phillips, Thomas Higginson, William W. Brown ( Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave) William Du Bois, first Harvard Afro-Am. Ph.D, The Souls of Black Folk(1903), The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois (1963) Booker T. Washington, a mild protestant, Up from Slavery (1901) Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman(1899), The Goophered Grapevine, The House behind the Cedars(1900) Paul Laurence Dunbar, poetry: “The Colored Soldiers”,“When Dey Listed Colored Soldiers’;Fiction: The Lynching of Jube Benson, The Sport of the Gods George Washington Cable, Sieur George, Old Creole Days, the Grandissimes Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings, Free Joe and Other Sketches IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.4 The Rise of Women Writers IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.4 The Rise of Women Writers 1. Kate Chopin: Bayou Folk,1894; A Night in Acadie,1897; The Awakening,1899; “The Story of an Hour” “The Storm” 2. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth,1905; Ethan Frome, 1911; The Custom of Country, 1913; The Age of Innocence, 1920. 3. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women,1867; Little Men,1871. 4. Frances E. W. Harper, Poems of Miscellaneous Subjects, 1854; “The Two Offers”,1859; Iola Leroy, 1892.(Radical Black woman writer) 5. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Violets and Other Tales, 1895; The Diary,1984; 6. Sarah Orne Jewett, Deephaven, 1877; A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886; A Country Doctor, 1884; The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896. 7. Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall, 1855; Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Porfolio,1853 8. Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron-Mills,1861; Silhouettes of American Life,1892. IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.5 The Slow Rise of DramaIV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.5 The Slow Rise of Drama1. James Herne, Margaret Fleming, 1890 (the most realistic ); Shore Acres,1892. 2. William Clyde Fitch, The City, 1909; Nathan Hale, 1898. 3. Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, The New York Idea, 1906. 4. Bronson Howard (the first American professional playwright and the pioneer of American modern drama ) Saratoga, 1870; Shenandoah, 1888. 5. David Belasco, The Heart of Maryland,1895; The Girl of the Golden West, 1905. 6. William Moody, The Great Divide, 1906; The Faith Healer, 1909.IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.6 Literary Criticism in the early 20th Century IV. The Realistic Period (1865-1914) 4.6 Literary Criticism in the early 20th Century New Humanism: Irving Babbitt: Literature and the American College,1908; The Laocoon,1910; The Masters of Modern French Criticism,1912; The Critic and American Life, 1932. Paul Elmer More: Shelburne Essays,1904-21; New Shelburne Essays, 1928-36. Radical Critics: Henry Louis Mencken: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche,1908 Prejudices, 1919-27; The American Language, 1919; Notes on the Democracy, 1926. Van Wyck Brooks: The Malady of the Ideal,1913; The America’s Coming of Age, 1915; Letters and Leadership,1918; The Ordeal of Mark Twain,1920; The Pilgrimage of Henry James,1925. Others: James Gibbons Huneker, Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists,1905; Egoists: a Book of Supermen, 1909; Promenades of an Impressionist, 1910. Joel Elias Spingarn, History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance, 1899; The New Criticism, 1911.