精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上introductionThe periods of American literature1.The colonial period (约1607 - 1765)The main features Puritanism2.The period of Enlightenment and the Independence War (1765 -1800)Benjamin Franklin3.The romantic period (1800 - 1865)(1)The early romanticism -Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper(2)“New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)”-Emerson Thoreau Whitman Dickinson Hawthorne Melvi
