19世纪美国小说大纲.doc

Teaching Plan of the 19th American FictionChapter I: Introduction: 1. Why do we read fiction?Teaching purpose: 1) to appreciate literary classics: the literary Elements; 2) to get knowledgethe formation and development of American literary mind; 3) learn to be a critic.2. Where are you? to know how much the students have already known.3. General introduction to 19th century American fiction4. How to judge? Literary criticism:Chapter II: Washington Irving (1783-1859)1. The authors Account of Himself （1819-1820）2. “Rip Van Winkle”（1819）3. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”（1820）Chapter III: James Fennimore Cooper (1789-1851) 1. The Pioneers: “The Slaughter of the Pigeons”（1823）2. Notions of the Americans (the literature and the arts of the United States)（1830）Chapter IV-V: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1863) 1. Prefaces to the romances 2. “Young Goodman Brown”（1835）3. “The Ministers Black Veil” （1836）4. “The Snow Image” (1852)5. The Scarlet Letter: Chapter XVII: The Pastor and His ParishionerChapter VI-VII: Herman Melville (1819-1891) 1. Hawthornes Portrait of Melville 2. Moby Dick: Chapter 54:The Town-Hos Story（1851）3. “Bartleby, the Scrivener”（1853）4. “Billy Budd, the Sailor”（1886）Chapter VIII-IX: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 1. Philosophy of Composition 2. “The Fall of the House of Usher”（1839）3. “William Wilson, A Tale”（1839）4. “Black Cat”（1843）5. “The Purloined Letter”（1844）Chapter X: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)1. “The Ministers Housekeeper”（1871）2. Uncle Toms Cabin; or the Life among the Lowly（1852）Chapter VII: The Mothers StruggleChapter XI: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) 1. Howells Views on American Realism2. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885): Last ChapterChapter XII: Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) 1. Mark Twains Views on Literature2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（1884）Last Chapter (Movie)Chapter XIII-XIV: Henry James (1843-1916) 1. The Art of Fiction (1879)2. The American (1876):Movie3. The Portrait of a Lady (1881)：Chapter 42Chapter XV: Stephen Crane (1871 1900) The Red Badge of Courage (1895): OutlineChapter XVII: Theodore H. A. Dreiser (1871 1945) Sister Carrie (1900): translationChapter XVI: