篇一：英语专业毕业论文参考题目
英语专业毕业论文参考题目
一．Literature
1. A Comparative Study between Shelly and Byron
2. A Study on Wordsworth’s Poetry
3. The Feature of Mark Twain’s Language
4. The Love and Hate of Heathcliff
-----On the Theme of Wuthering Herghts
5. The Relationship between “Character” and “Environment” in
Hardy’s Novels of Character and Environment浅谈哈代“性格与环境”小说中的“性格”和“环境”的关系
6．Narrative Voice in Hemingway’s Fiction. 海明威小说的叙述声音
7. A Feminist Reading of Sister Carrier Dreiser’s Views of Womanhood
从嘉莉妹妹的形象看德莱塞的女性观
8. Images of Hester Pryrne in The Scarlet Letter
《红字》中的海斯特·白兰形象解读
9. One the Religious Meaning of Moby Dick
《白鲸》的宗教意义透视
10. The Last Fisherman: A New Analysis of The Old Man and the Sea
《老人与海》中主人公圣地亚哥的命运新析
11．The Writing Skills in A Farewell to Arms
从《永别了，武器》看海明威的写作技巧
12．On the Women Characters of Hemingway’s Works
论海明威作品中的女性形象
13. Complex themes of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
14. Symbolism in “Everyday Use”
15. Black Literature & Black Power Movement
16. Comparative study of the two greatest humorist Charles Lamb & Mark Twain
17. Comparative study of the two greatest American humorist Max Shulman & Mark Twain
18. Imagery in “Marrakech”
19. Comparative study of any two novelists
20. Comparative study of any two heroes/ heroines in different novels
21. On the Nature and theme of Paradise Lost
22. Naturalism in Desire Under the Elms
《榆树下的欲望》中的自然主义
23. Illusion versus Reality in A Streetcar Named Desire
《欲望号街车》的幻想与现实的对立
24. Disillusionment of American Dream in Death of a Salesman
破灭的美国梦――论《推销员之死》
25. Deformed Characters in Sherwood Anderson’s novel
论舍伍德·安德森小说中的畸人
26. Declining southern women in Tennesse Williams’ novels
论田纳西·威廉斯小说中的南方没落女性
27. Profundity under Simplicity in Robert Frost’s poetry
静水流深-----罗伯特·弗罗斯特诗歌
28. Symbolic Meaning of the title The Sound and the Fury
《喧哗与骚动》的象征意义
29. The Absurd World in Catch-22 in the Light of Postmodernism
哈代小说中的自然主义
30. The Lost Generation in The Sun Also Rises
《太阳依旧升起》中“迷惘的一代”
二. Linguistic and Practical Linguisitics:
1. Ways of Improving Chinese Students’ Writing Ability
2. The Stylistic Features of Advertisement English
3. The Significance of Learning Culture in Foreign Language Leaning
4. An comparative study of the gender difference in English learning
男女生英语学习差异比较研究
5. The Inferences of Conversational Implications
会话含义的推断
6. context and meaning 语境和意义
7. An Inquiry into Speech Act Theory 言语行为理论探究
8. On Lexical Cohesion in Expository Writing
说明文中的词汇衔接手段
9. An Inquiry into the New words In English
英语新词新意探究
10. English movie and English learning 原版电影与英语学习
11. On the advantage and the disadvantage of Crazy English
疯狂英语的利与弊
12.The pragmatic analysis of English Euphemism
英语委婉语的语用分析
三. Comparison
1. A Comparison between Chinese and English Discourse Patterns
2. The Contrastive analysis of euphemism “death” in Chinese and English Translation
3. The Contras(本文来自：WwW.xiaOCaofAnweN.Com 小草范文 网:英美文学论文唯美主义)tive study between English idioms and Chinese idioms
6. The Contrastive study between English euphemism and Chinese euphemism
7. The Comparison of Chinese and American Idioms
8. A Contrastive Study of Names in English and Chinese
9. A Contrastive Study of Color Words in English and Chinese
10.A Comparative Study of Application Letters in English and Chinese
四. Culture
1. A Contrastive Study of Politeness in English and Chinese
2. Developing Learners’ Cultural Capacity in TEFL
3. The Cultural Feature of Taboo
4. Culture Factors in Translation
5. The Individualism in American Culture
6. Taboo in CE-translation in the perspective of culture
英汉禁忌语的文化透视
五．Translation
1. Reproduction of Beauty in Literary Translation
2. Translation in Business English
3. On the Criteria if Translation
4. Basic Strategies of Advertisement Translation
5. Translation of the Names of Shops and Government Units
城市街道商店和单位名称的翻译
6. Pragmatic failure in Translating Shop Names and Signage
城市街道商店和单位名称翻译中的语用失效
7. Linguistic Features of English-based Business Contract and its Translation
经贸合同英语的语言特征及其翻译
8. On “Context” in Translation of Literary Works
文学翻译中的语境问题
9. English and Chinese Translation of Complicated Sentences in Financial Works
财经英语长句的破立
10. On Domestication and Foreignization论归化与异化
11. On Cross-cultural Awareness in English and Chinese Translation
论英汉翻译中的跨文化意识
12. On the Representation of Color in Translation
英汉互译中颜色词的翻译
13．论“正反”句的英汉翻译（提示：正反句即肯定与否定句）
六.Rhetoric
A Study of Rhetorical Devices in English Proverbs
英语谚语的修辞手段研究
Ambiguity an Puns in English英语中的歧义与双关
Figures of Speech Commonly Used in English Poems
英语诗歌中的常用修辞
Effects of Dialect on English Prounciation
方言对学生英语语音的影响
The Electronic Dictionary and English Teaching and Learning
电子辞典与英语教学
Context and Reading Comprehension 语境与阅读
The Comparison of English Chinese Rhetorical Patterns in Texts and English writing 英汉语篇修辞对比与写作教学
The Interference of Native Language in English
英语写作中母语的负迁移
Effects of Tolerance of Ambiguity on the Selection of Language Learning Strategies 歧义容忍度对外语学习策略选择的影响
The Analysis of Rhetorical Features of English Idioms
七．Stylistic
Stylistic Characteristics of Advertising English
从诗歌的文体特点浅谈诗歌翻译的唯美标准
体裁分析：语篇翻译的重要手段
汉英词汇衔接对比研究
Style and Alternative Choices
文体学与外语教学
诗歌中的语言变异与突出
A Stylistic Analysis of Advertising English
照应手段与文体作用
分析一位你较熟悉的作家的语言风格及常用的句法修辞手段
An Analysis of the Stylistic Features in EST
科技英语的文体分析与研究
八．English Language Teaching
Cross-cultural Communication Competence and English Teaching
跨文化交际能力与英语教学
The Role of Grammar Instruction in Language Teaching
英语教学中的语法教学
Use Games I English Language Teaching
在英语教学中运用游戏
篇二：英语论文选题
外国语学院英语专业本科毕业论文选题指南
一、选题原则：
1、英语专业本科毕业论文选题在立足英语专业的同时鼓励跨学科研究。
2、选题应该具有理论及现实意义；观点正确、明确；选题应求实，力求对研究对象有足够的了解，以研究基础、翔实材料和严实论证取胜。
3、选题应具有创新性。学生应利用已积累的知识和经验，经过科学思维加工和再造, 产出新知识、新思想、新方法和新成果。
4、选题应在个人研究能力所及范围之内，即选取有特定范围、边界或程度并具备材料基础的具体对象去研究。
5、选题应避免生僻、宽泛；力求小而不单薄，新而不浮泛。选题点应牵涉宽广的面，需将其置放到宽广平面去分析，研究文学人物或作品需研究其同时代人物或语境，既通过面阐释点，又通过点阐释面, 实现点面互释， 面要求宽广视野、比较眼光、全局胸怀；小而新的题目需以厚实的材料和严谨的分析使其丰厚、沉稳；对问题采取多方面、立体或层层推进的研究，从而给人以丰厚的感受。
二、 选题范围：
论文选题分为以下四个研究方向：
1、英语语言学及应用语言学方向（包括语言学一般理论的研究；以及英语教学法、测试学、二语习得等方面的研究等）
2、英美文学、文化方向（英美文学的文化研究；经典文学作品分析；西方英语国家文化研究以及与中西文化的比较研究等）
3、翻译方向（翻译理论与实践探讨、译本研究以及名家名著翻译作品对比研究等）
4、法律英语方向（法律英语翻译研究、法律翻译案例分析、法律语言学一般理论研究等）
三、英语专业本科毕业论文历年选题（仅供参考，不得雷同）
1.Jane Austen's Marriage Conception in Pride and Prejudice简?奥斯汀的婚姻观在《傲慢与偏见》中的体现
2. The Youngest Old Continent--A Sketch of American Culture古老大洲的年轻生活——美国文化速写
3．English idioms—A Mirror Reflecting British Culture浅析英语习语中的文化现象
4. The Beauty of Horror-a Brief Analysis of Allen Poe's Gothic Fictions恐怖的魅力-浅析爱伦?坡的哥特小说
5. The Great Gatsby: A look at American Culture《了不起的盖茨比》看美国文化
6. The Homosexual Element in the English Cinematographic and Television Works英语影视作品中的同性元素
7. An Analysis of the Female Characters Molded by Edith Wharton浅析伊迪斯?华顿笔下的女性形象
8. Being a Women: Sense or Sensibility?---An Analysis of Jane Austen's Novel Sense and Sensibility女性的理智与情感——简奥斯丁的《理智与情感》赏析
9. China’s Choice on Traditional Culture under the Era of Globalization全球化时代下中西文化的碰撞及中国传统文化的抉择
10. On the Translation of Trademark谈商标的翻译
11. Analysis of the Characteristics of Gentleman through Pride and Prejudice 从傲慢与偏见中分析绅士的性格特征
12. Grace Under Pressure---Hemingway and the Hemingway Hero优雅面对压力——海明威与海明威式的英雄
13. The Cultural Value of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 浅析傲慢与偏见的文化价值
14. The Growth of the Black Women --A study of the Color Purple by Alice Walker从爱丽丝?沃克的紫色谈黑人女性的成长
15. 19th-Century Western Feminism ----Analysis on Jane Austen's Concept of Marriage and Love从简.奥斯汀的视角分析19世纪西方女性主义的婚姻爱情观
16. Analysis on Marriage and family in Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见中的婚姻家庭观
17. Being a Woman: Sense Or Sensibility?—An Analysis of Sense and Sensibility做一个感性还是理性的女人？——评析简奥斯丁的小说理智与情感
18. Great Gatsby and American Dream《了不起的盖茨比》与美国梦
19. A Brief Analysis on the Animal Figures in Animal Farm浅析《动物庄园》的动物形象
20. A Comparison between the Human-caused Tragedy and Non-human-caused Tragedy in Tess of the D'Urbervilles《德伯家的苔丝》中人为悲剧因素与非人为悲剧因素的对比
21. Brief Analysis of the Madwoman in the Attic in Jane Eyre简析《简爱》中阁楼上的疯女人
22. The Analysis of features of humanism in Hamlet浅析<哈姆雷特>中的人文主义形象特征
23. The Coexistence of Pagan and Christian Elements in Beowulf《贝奥武甫》中的异教与基督教元素
24. Studies on English and Gender论英语与性别
25. Legal Terminology in Translation法律术语翻译研究
26. Overcoming Differences in Common Law and Civil Law in Legal Translation 法律翻译中如何克服不同系的文化差异
27. Probe the Development of Bilingual Teaching in China探讨双语教育在中国的发展
28. The Situation of English under the Development of Educational System教育升级下英语的处境
29. A Very General Study on the Influence of Early 20th Century Translated Literature Works That Made in the Use of Every Day Chinese浅谈20世纪初文学翻译对现代人常用语的影响
30. From Romeo and Juliet to Shakespeare in Love从《罗密欧与朱丽叶》到《莎翁情史》
31. The Broken American Dream--An Analysis of Symbolism in the Great Gatsby对《伟大的盖茨比》中象征主义的分析
32. A Victim of Asceticism----The Analysis on the Tragedy of the Protagonist in The Thorn Birds宗教禁欲的囚徒------《荆棘鸟》主人公悲剧解析
33. Discuss the Ways in which Christian Concepts Resonate in the Writings of Aestheticism and decadence试论基督教思想对唯美主义和颓废主义文学创作的影响
34.19th Century British Female Novel and the Wakening Feminist 19世纪英国女性文学与觉醒的女性主义
35. From a Cross-cultural Angle to See Ang Lee"s Movies李安电影的跨文化视角
36. From Gossip Girl to the American Upper Class从《绯闻女孩》到美国上流社会
37. Jack London: The Call of the Wild杰克?伦敦：《野性的呼唤》
38. On Charles Dickens Style in Bleak House论狄更斯《荒凉山庄》中的语言风格
39. Cultural Difference Between Chinese and English on Politeness中英礼仪的文化差异
40. On the Future of Foreign Cultural Integration of China's Animation Industry Through the Success of "Kongfu Panda""从“功夫熊猫”的成功论中国动画制作产业文化交融的未来之路
41. A Study on Body Language in Nonverbal Communication对非言语交流中的身势语的研究
42. On Plot Setting of Sidney Sheldon's The Other Side of Midnight浅谈西德尼?谢尔顿《午夜情挑》的情节设置
43. On the Four Developmental Stages of Jane Eyre's Characters浅析简爱性格发展的四个阶段
44. The Reaction of Racial Discrimination in English种族歧视在英语中的体现
45. A Brief Analysis on the Personalities of the Main Characters in Lord of the Rings《指环王》中主要人物的个性分析
46. Analysis of the Collapse of American Dream ---- Based onTthe Great Gatsby浅析“美国梦”的破碎 -----从《伟大的盖茨比》说起
47. Cultural Conflicts in the Novel The Joy Luck Club小说《喜福会》中的中西文化碰撞
48. Edgar Allan Poe’s Art of Short Fiction in His Own Work爱伦坡的短篇小说创作艺术在其作品中的体现
49. Advertisement English and Its Translation广告英语及其翻译
50．Comparison between two English versions of the selected poems from Dream of the Red Mansion14首《红楼梦》诗词两种英文译本的翻译比较
51. Principles and Techniques of Chinese Element Translation in Movies论电影中中国元素翻译的原则与技巧
52. The Basic Features and Rules in Translation of Literary Work文学翻译中的基本特点及原则
53. The Comparison of Different Translation Versions of A Dream of Red Mansions《红楼梦》不同版本的比较
54. On English Translation of Chinese Dish Names论中式菜名的英译
55. Analysis on Sentence Patterns in the English Version of Chinese Contract Law中国合同法英译本的句式分析
56. On Translation of Tourist Guide论旅游指南的翻译
57. The choice of words in legal translation--Analysis of the Two Translation Versions of the Foreign Trade law of the People's Republic of China法律翻译的用词选择--<中华人民共和国对外贸易法>两个英文版本的对比分析
58. A Study of the Chinese Version of Titles of English Films英语电影片名汉译研究
59．An Approach to the Translation of Literature Works’ Artistic Conception在译本中重现原作文学意境的方法探讨
60. The Basic Theory and Skill on Oral Interpretation口译的基本理论和技巧
61. Translation of Captions of English Movies英文电影字幕的翻译
62. On the translation of chapter titles of Vanity Fair《名利场》章节标题翻译研究
63. Translation of Modal Verbs in Legal English法律英语中情态动词的翻译
64. A Study on the English Introduction of Tourist Attractions of China浅析中国旅游景点的英文介绍
65. On English Translation of Chinese Slogans论汉语标语的英译
66. On the change of word categories and sentence structures in translation论翻译中词性与句子结构的转换
67. The Deconstruction Approach to the Translations of A Dream of the Red Mansion解构主义视角下的红楼梦翻译
68. On the Application of Major Principles of Plain English to Non-literary Chinese-English Translation论简明英语基本原则在汉英非文学翻译中的应用
69. Dickens’ Humanism in A Tale of Two cities 《双城记》中狄更斯的人道主义思想
70.The Critical Discourse Analysis of the Discourse in Oral English Classes
英语口语课堂话语的批判话语分析
71. Contrastive Analysis of the Discourse Formation in Oral English Class and English Listening Class (or Literature Class)
英语口语课堂与听力课堂（或文学课堂）的话语结构对比分析
72. Contrastive Analysis of the Sentence Patterns in Legal English and Chinese Legal Language
法律英语与汉语法律语言的句式特点对比分析
73. On the Investigation and Analysis of the Strategies of Vocabulary Acquisition
词汇习得策略的调查与分析
74.Factors that Facilitate Successful Learners in Their English Learning Process— a Case Study of Four Successful Students 促进成功的英语学习者的学习过程的因素分析—— 对四个成功的英语学生的个案分析
75. The Study on Children's English Teaching对少儿英语教学的探究
76. The Technique of Self-portrait in a Law School Personal Statement论法学院申请文书之个人陈述中的自我刻画
77. Test Oriented Teaching--A New Teaching Plan Targeting Freshmen of English Major考试指向型教学——针对大学英语系一年级新生的新教学计划
78. A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Rhetoric in Advertising Language广告语言中的英汉修辞对比
79. On the Influence of Latin on English论拉丁文对英语的影响
80. Business English Rhetorical Art and Techniques Contemplated in the Light of Various Theories多视角下的商务英语言语修辞研究
篇三：英美文学知识点总结(适用于英语专八)
Old English Literature 古英语文学
（450-1066年）
Beowulf （贝奥武甫）---The first English national epic
中世纪英语文学（1066-1500）
Geoffrey Chaucer (乔叟，c. 1343–1400) was an English poet. He is remembered for 《坎特伯雷故事集》, called the father of English literature―英国文学之父‖ William Langland (朗格兰，1330?-1400?),the author of the 14th-century English long narrative .
文艺复兴（16-17世纪）
William Shakespeare (莎士比亚，1564-1616), English poet and playwright, his surviving 《维拉斯和阿多尼斯》The Rape of Lucrece.《鲁克丽丝受辱记》
Shakespeare‘s greatest works:
greatest tragedies 《李尔王》《奥赛罗》,Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》
great comedies 《威尼斯商人》《第十二夜》
great historical plays:《理查三世》 《亨利四世》世》, Hey VII 《亨利八世》
John Milton (弥尔顿, 1608-1674) was an English poet and civil servant for the 失乐园》《力士参孙》.
18世纪文学和新古典主义
Alexander Pope (浦柏,1688-1744 ) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical epigram 讽刺隽语and heroic couplet英雄双韵体.His major works include mock epic satirical poem An Essay on Man 《人论》and An Essay Daniel Defoe ( 笛福，1660—1731) was an English writer who gained enduring fame for his , spokesman for middle-class people
Hey Fielding (菲尔丁, 1707 ---1754) ，Jonathan Swift (斯威夫特,1667-1745), was an Anglo-Irish novelist, satirist. He is remembered for novel such as 《格列佛游记》.
Richard Sheridan ( 谢立丹，1751—1816)造谣学校). He was a represntative writer of Comedies of Manners.
Laurence Sterne (斯特恩,1713—1768 ), an English novelist. He is best known for his novel 《商第传》）.
Oliver Goldsmith （哥尔德斯密斯，1728-1774）《威克菲尔德牧师传记》)
Thomas Gray (托马斯?格雷 1716—1771 )，an English poet, author of
《墓畔哀歌》）, writer of sentimentalism感伤派.
浪漫主义（18世纪末19世纪初）
William Blake (1757 –1827) 《经验之歌》.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850),a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, .Wordsworth?s magnum opus is generally considered to be 《序曲》.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(柯勒律治, 1772 –1834) was an English poet who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets舟子颂》 and Kubla Khan《忽必烈汗》
George Gordon Byron (拜伦，1788—1824 ) was a English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.Amongst Byron?s best-known works are his narrative 《哈罗尔德游记》
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is perhaps most famous 普罗米修斯》.
Mary Shelley (玛丽? 雪莱1797 –1851) was a British novelist best known for her Gothic novel 《弗兰肯斯坦》, considered as first science fiction
John Keats ( 济慈, 1795—1821) was an English poet who became one of the principal poets of 《夜莺颂》
浪漫主义时期小说家
Jane Austen (1775—1817) , was an English novelist. Her major novels include 《理智与情感》《傲慢与偏见》《爱玛》).
Walter Scott (司各特, 1771---1832), a prolific Scottish historical novelist . His major works is
Realism 现实主义时期 （Victorian Age 维多利亚时期 1837-1901） Bronte sisters 勃朗宁姐妹, Charlotte (夏洛蒂, 1816 – 1855), Emily (艾米丽, 1818 – 1848) and Anne (安妮, 1820 – 1849), were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Charlotte?s Jane Eyre《简爱》, Emily‘s Wuthering Heights 《呼啸山庄》 and Anne's Agnes Grey《艾格妮斯·格雷》are masterpieces of English literature.
George Elliot (乔治-爱略特，1819—1880 ) was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England. Her major novels 《佛洛斯河上的磨坊》.
Charles Dickens (1812–1870)：one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era. His 《双城记》《大卫科波菲尔德》《远大前程》 William Makepeace Thackeray (萨克雷，1811—1863) was an English novelist of the 19th
Mrs. Gaskell (盖斯凯尔夫人 , 1810-1865)was an English novelist during the Victorian era. Her 《玛丽? 巴顿》
Thomas Hardy(哈代, 1840 – 1928) ,an English novelist of the naturalism自然主义. His major 《德伯家的苔丝》离尘嚣》Jude the Obscure. 《无名的裘德》Most of his novels are set in Wessex（威塞克斯）. 现实主义时期诗歌
Robert Browning (布朗宁, 1812–1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues戏剧独白, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
Alfred Tennyson (丁尼生，1809 – 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, including
Oscar Wilde (王尔德, 1854 – 1900)
playwright and one novel, known for his aestheticism唯美主义(art for art‘s sake为了艺术而艺术). His major plays include The Importance of Being Earnest《不可儿戏》; His major novel is 《道林-格雷的画像》
20世纪和现代主义
Bernard Shaw (萧伯纳, 1856-1950), an Irish playwright, the greatest dramatist in English literature in the 20th century. He adhered to the tradition of realism, writing plays as a way to 《皮革马力翁》 and Saint Joan《圣女贞德》
John Galsworthy (高尔斯华绥, 1867-1933) one of the most important novelists in the Early 20th century， which comprises 《有产业的人》 Joseph Coad (康拉德, 1857-1932)Coad was born in Poland and an English novelist. His 《吉姆爷》.
James Joyce (乔伊斯, 1882-1941):An Irish born novelist, known for the technique of the stream of consciousness. His main works: 《尤利西斯》; 《青年艺术家的肖像》; 《芬尼根彻夜祭》Dubliners《都柏林人》
E. M. Forster （福斯特, 1879-1970）《印度之行》 T.S. Eliot (T.S.艾略特, 1888-1965)：American poet, best known for his poem The Waste Land 《荒原》, 1948 Nobel Prize winner for literature.
David Herbert Lawrence (D.H.劳伦斯, 1885-1930), an English novelist. His most important . He is the founder of stream of consciousness意识流.
William Butler Yeats (叶芝, 1865-1939)an Irish poet and awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 《利达和天鹅》.
Samuel Beckett (贝克特，1906-1989), an Irish dramatist and Nobel Prize winner for Literature. . He is the exponent of the theatre of the absurd 荒诞派戏剧.
Iris Jean Murdoch (默多克, 1919-1999), English female novelist, her major novels include 《黑王子》
Doris Lessing (莱辛, 1919--) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing. In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Muriel Spark （斯帕克, 1918-2006）《布罗迪小姐的青春》
Virginia Woolf (伍尔夫, 1882-1941)Woolf is an exponent of modernism and one of the most important female novelists. Her major works include , 《向灯塔去》.
美国文学
殖民地革命时期
Benjamin Franklin (富兰克林, 1706-1790): one of American founding fathers (建国之父) Major works: 《自传》 《穷人理查历书》
Jonathan Edwards (爱德华兹，1703 –1758) was a colonial theologian and writer. His work is 《落在忿怒之神手中的罪人》is credited for starting the First Great Awakening.
Thomas Pain (潘恩, 1737-1809):British pamphleteer. Major works: （1776）
Federalists’ Papers《联邦党人文集》: Alexander Hamilton汉密尔顿John Jay杰伊James Madison曼迪逊
浪漫主义时期
Romantic Period（1790-1865）：
Earlier Romantic Period (1790-1830)
Romantic Heyday (1830-1865)
Earlier Romantic Period:
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Washington Irving (华盛顿? 欧文, 1783-1859): American romantic novelist. He was best known for his short stories ―The Legend of Sleepy Hollow‖ and ―Rip Van Winkle‖, both of which . Irving is the first American writer who gained international fame.
James Fenimore Cooper (库珀, 1789-1851):American romantic novelist , best remembered for 《皮袜子故事》 《猎鹿者》, 探路人》最后的莫西干人》) featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo.
2) Romantic Heyday (1830-1865):
Waldo Ralph Emerson
Hey David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Edgar Allan Poe
Transcendentalists（超验主义）:
Waldo Ralph Emerson
Hey David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (惠特曼，1819-1882): American romantic poet, father of free verse(自由诗) , best
Waldo Ralph Emerson (爱默生，1803-1882):《论自然》is the manifesto of transcendentalism. his another essay The American Scholar《美国学者》 is considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence‖.
Hey David Thoreau (梭罗, 1817–1862) : American romantic writer best known for his book , a reflection upon simple living.
Herman Melville (麦尔维尔, 1819–1891) : American novelist, best known for his novel 《白鲸》
Nathaniel Hawthorne (霍桑, 1804–1864): American novelist, best known for his four romances(传奇小说): 《七个尖尖角的房子》《玉石人像》
Emily Dickinson (狄金森，1830–1886) American poetess, whose poetry are concerned with life, death and immortality.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (斯托尔夫人, 1811–1896 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》attacked the cruelty of slavery.)
Realism 现实主义
Mark Twain (马克?吐温1835 –1910), American novelist. most noted for his novels 《汤姆索亚历险记》）贝恩历险记》Life on the Mississippi River《密西西比河上的生活》
Hey James (亨利?詹姆斯1843-1916), American realist novelist, founder of international novel（国际题材小说）
Important works: 《欧洲人》《鸽冀》 《大使》 《金碗》
O. Hey 欧亨利 was the pen name of American novelist William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910). O. Hey?s short stories are well known for his short stories such as 《警察和赞