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1、WashingtonIrving目錄AppreciationofhisworksIntroductionofAmericanRomanticismIntroductionofW.IrvingIrving’scontributiontoAmericanLiteratureAmericanRomanticism(1810s-1860s)The?Romantic?Period?covers?the?first?half?of?the?19th?century.?A?rising?America?with?its?ideals?of?democracy?and
2、?equality,?its?industrialization,?its?western?expansion,?and?a?variety?of?foreign?influences?such?as?Sir?Walter?Scott?were?among?the?important?factors?which?made?literary?expansion?and?expression?not?only?possible?but?also?inevitable?in?the?period?immediately?following?the?natio
3、n’s?political?independence.?Yet,Romantics?frequently?shared?certain?general?characteristics:?moral?enthusiasm,?faith?in?value?of?individualism?and?a?presumption?that?the?natural?world?was?a?source?of?goodness?and?man’s?societies?a?source?of?corruption.?Romantic?values?were?promi
4、nent?in?American?politics,?art,?and?philosophy?until?the?Civil?War.?The?romantic?exaltation?of?the?individual?suited?the?nation’s?revolutionary?heritage?and?its?frontier?egalitarianism.AboutIrvingWorksofIrvingPositioninAmericanLiteratureBriefintroductionofIrvingIntroductionofW.I
5、rvingBorn:3,April,1783Died:28November,1859HewasanAmericanauthor,essayist,biographerandhistorianoftheearly19thcentury.IrvingalsoistheU.SministertoSpainfrom1842to1846Works1809HisfirstbookAHistoryofNewYork《紐約外史》wasagreatsuccessandwonhimwidepopularity1819-1820WiththepublicationofThe
6、SketchBook《見聞札記》又名《柑掌錄》,hewonameasureofinternationalrecognition1828TheHistoryoftheLifeandVoyagesofChristopherColumbus1829AChronicoftheConquestofGranada1832TheAlhambra1842-1846LifeofGoldsmithLifeofWashington...PositioninAmericanLiteratureHewasthefirstAmericanwriterofimaginativeli
7、teraturetogaininternationalfameHewasthefatherofAmericanliteratureforhisfirstbookTheHistoryofNewYorkacclaimingthebeginofAmericanRomanticismTheSketchBookisthefirstshortstoryinAmericanliteratureTheSketchBookTheLegendofSleepyHollow《睡谷的傳說》RipVanWinkle《瑞普·凡·溫克爾》RipVanWINKLEThestoryiss
8、etintheyearsbeforeandaftertheAmericanRevolution
