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Nineteenth-century writers in the United States, whether they wrote novels,
Nineteenth-century writers in the United States, whether they wrote novels,
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2023-07-22
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Nineteenth-century writers in the United States, whether they wrote novels, short stories, poems, or plays, were powerfully drawn to the railroad in its golden years. In fact, writers responded to the railroads as soon as the first were built in the 1830’s. By the 1850’s, the railroad was a major presence in the life of the nation. Writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau saw the railroad both as a boon to democracy and as an object of suspicion. The railroad could be and was a de spoiler of nature; furthermore, in its manifestation of speed and noise, it might be a despoiler of human nature as well. By the 1850’s and 1860’s, there was a great distrust among writers and intellectuals of the rapid industrialization of which the railroad was a leading force. Deeply philosophical historians such as Henry Adams lamented the role that the new frenzy for business was playing in eroding traditional values. A distrust of industry and business continued among writers throughout the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth.
For the most part, the literature in which the railroad plays an important role belong to popular culture than to the realm of serious art. One thinks of melodramas, boys’ books, thrillers, romances, and the like rather than novels of the first rank. In the railroads’ prime years, between 1890and 1920, there were a few individuals in the United States, most of them with solid railroading experience behind them, who made a profession of writing about railroading --works offering the ambience of stations, yards, and locomotive cabs. There writers, who can genuinely be said to have created a genre, the "railroad novel, "are now mostly forgotten, their names having faded from memory. But anyone who takes the time to consult their fertile writing will still find a treasure trove of information about the place of the railroad in the life of the United States. [br] What is the author’s attitude toward the "railroad novels" and other books about railroads written between 1890 and 1920?
选项
A、They have as much literary importance as the books written by Emerson, Thoreau, and Adams.
B、They are good examples of the effects industry and business had on the literature of the United States.
C、They contributed to the weakening of traditional values.
D、They are worth reading as sources of knowledge about the impact of railroads on life in the United States.
答案
D
解析
态度题。作者对于“铁路小说”及其他写于1890至1920年间有关铁路的小说持什么态度?A项它们与Emerson,Thoreau和Adams作品的文学重要性是一样的。B项它们是工商业对美国文学影响的好例子。C项它们是传统文化削弱的一个原因。D项作为铁路对美国生活影响的信息来源,它们是值得阅读的。
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