美國文學week2

9/23  Week2: To 1820: Overview, poetry by Anne Bradstreet 

• Hawthorne Walden

Hawthorne’s house of seven gables

·  P170

"Traveling is a fool's paradise, the wise man stay home."

• The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his best work. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

• A: adultery

• Paganism is a term that developed among the Christian community of southern Europe during late antiquity to describe religions other than their own, Judaism, or Islam–the three Abrahamic religions.

    death in life

     heritage guilt and traditional curses

     moral decay (de- away from)

       tercentenary (ter-3)

    protest

• ant,ent- suffix

       protestant

       competent

         applicant

          attendant

        accountant

      Christian <= catholic, protestant

      Venerate, worship

• White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is an informal, sometimes disparaging term for a group of high-status and influential White Americans of English Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group believed to control disproportionate social, political, and financial power in the United States.

 

• Political elite: in political and sociological theory, an elite is a small group of powerful people, such as an oligarchy, that controls a disproportionate amount of wealth or political power in society. 

 Stuart little 

• indifference(n.)If you accuse someone of indifference to something, you mean that they have a complete lack of interest in it.

• Jamestown:the Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

Virginia 8 presidents

The Federalist

• Civil war 1861-1865

The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. 

• Fort Sumter is a sea fort inCharleston, South Carolina, notable for two battles of theAmerican Civil War. 

• St. Augustine is a city in northeastern Florida. It is the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement within the borders of the contiguous United States.

• Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American novelist of the early twentieth century.

• Jimmy Carter :James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

      Georgia is peachy.

• James Madison, Jr.  was an American statesman, political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States(1809–17). He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for being instrumental in the drafting of the U.S.

• A plantation is a large piece of land, especially in a tropical country, where crops such as rubber, coffee, tea, or sugar are grown.

Boone Hall plantation










Ryan Reynold

Versatile (ver- modify)

• He is such a renaissance man. (他很多才多藝。)

      motto

      freedom

• ratified (v.)

       ratification(n.) the ratification of a treaty or written agreement 
       is the process of ratifying it.
 

• The United States Electoral College is the institution that elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years.

• The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. 

• se-

      separate

      segregate

      select

      seclude