美国文学在经历了十九世纪上半叶浪漫主义潮流的冲击之后出现了生机勃勃的繁荣景象。人们甜蜜于大自然温情的怀抱里,流连于人与自然的沟通、融合之中,沉浸在感性的香梦里。不久,美国南北战争爆发。这场由于南北方经济发展不平衡和南北方制度的差异导致的内战以北方资本主义制度战胜南方蓄奴制而告终,使得美国政 American literature experienced a thriving boom after it had undergone the impact of romanticism in the first half of the nineteenth century. People sweet in the embrace of the warmth of nature, linger in the communication between man and nature, integration, immersed in the sensual sweet dreams. Shortly after the American Civil War broke out. This civil war, led by the imbalance of economic development in the north and the south and the difference between the north and the south, ended with the victory of the capitalist system in the north by slavery in the South,