美國文學 Week 3
2015/12/29 17:37
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The Age of Innocence
Antebellum
The pre-war period in the United States from 1789–1849
Frederick Douglass
An African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Andrew Jackson
The seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means.
Jude the Obscure
The last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895.
United States territorial acquisitions
Iron Road (2008)
A poor but feisty Chinese woman, disguised as a boy, joins the railroad crew in the Rocky Mountains to search for her long-lost father, and falls in love with the son of the railroad tycoon.
Transcendentalism
A philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern region of the United States.
Inferiority complex
A lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to standards. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme asocial behavior.
Anne Bradstreet
The most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published.
Bridal shower
A gift-giving party held for a bride-to-be in anticipation of her wedding. The custom originated in the 1890s and is today most common in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Antebellum
The pre-war period in the United States from 1789–1849
Frederick Douglass
An African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Andrew Jackson
The seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means.
Jude the Obscure
The last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895.
United States territorial acquisitions
Iron Road (2008)
A poor but feisty Chinese woman, disguised as a boy, joins the railroad crew in the Rocky Mountains to search for her long-lost father, and falls in love with the son of the railroad tycoon.
Transcendentalism
A philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern region of the United States.
Inferiority complex
A lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to standards. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme asocial behavior.
Anne Bradstreet
The most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published.
Bridal shower
A gift-giving party held for a bride-to-be in anticipation of her wedding. The custom originated in the 1890s and is today most common in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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