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美国文学复习资料 American romanticism （美国浪漫主义）: an artistic and experiences them. intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th Local color/regionalism: local color is a term applied to century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, literature which emphasizes its settings, being concerned emphasis on the individuals expression of emotion and with the character of a district or of an area, as marked by its imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of customs, dialects, landscape or other peculiarities that have classicism. and rebellion against established social rules and escaped standardizing cultural influences. conventions. American Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and Transcendentalism （超验主义）is a philosophical and beliefs of the Puritans. They accepted the doctrine of literary movement that flourished in New England from predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited about the early 19th century. It is the summit of American atonement through a special infusion of grace form God. As Romanticism. It holds that one must transcend, in a sense go a culture heritage, Puritanism did have a profound influence beyond, logic and experience through intuition in order to on the early American mind. find the deepest truths. The Transcendentalists stressed spirit Washington Irving 华盛顿.欧文 or the Over soul. They affirms the role of individual and saw 1.A History of New York 《纽约外史》 nature as symbolic of the Spirit or God. The main 2. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. representatives are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David 3.Rip Van Winkle 《瑞普.凡.温克尔》 Thoreau and Magyar Fuller. 4.The Leg