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“The Age of Reason” “American Enlightenment”
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Historical Background
• Politics dominated the revolutionary phase of American writing.
• The crisis in American life carried by the Revolution made artists self-conscious about American subjects.
• In 1630 the puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• Independent War (1776-1783); the foundation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic—the United States of America.
• At the age of 18, he accompanied the group to Holland to escape persecution.
• 13 years later he was one of those who, on December 11, took on the Mayflower and entered Plymouth Bay.
• From 1622 until his death, Bradford was reelected thirty timed as governor.
• Masterpiece: OBaidu Nhomakorabea Plymouth Plantation
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Anne Bradstreet (安妮·布拉 德斯特里特) (1612-1672)
histories, travel accounts, diaries, biographies, letters, autobiographies, sermons, and poems.
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Major writers:
Captain John Smith （约翰·史密斯）
the first American writer
A Description of New England 《新英格兰叙事》 (1616)
General History of Virginia《弗吉尼亚通史》 （1642）
• Pocahontas
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William Bradford (1590-1657)
• One of the greatest of colonial American, wholly consecrated to a mission in which he regarded himself as an instrument of God.
American Literature
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1
American literature
• The Literature of Colonial Period • The Literature of Reason and Revolution • The literature of Romanticism • The Literature of Realism • The Literature of The 20th century
• Puritans look upon themselves as a chosen people, and it follow logically that anyone who challenged their way of life is opposing God’s will and is not to be accepted.
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12
Benjamin Franklin
• American politician, scientist, inventor, and educator.
• The spiritual life in the colonies during that period was molded by the bourgeois Enlightenment.
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2. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790):
• The Autobiography • Poor Richard’s Almanack
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2
The Literature of Colonial Period
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3
Historical background
• The first permanent English settlement in North America at James town, Virginia in 1607.
• Puritan opposition to pleasure and the arts sometimes has been exaggerated.
• Religious teaching tended to emphasize the image of a
wrathful God.
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5
Types of writing:
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4
Puritanism: American Puritans
• Puritans want to make up pure their religious beliefs and practices.
• Puritans wish to restore simplicity to church services and the authority of the Bible to theology.
the first American woman poet
a Puritan poet, once called “Tenth Muse”
most famous poems— “Contemplations”《沉思录》
.
9
The Literature of Reason and Revolution
.
10
Historical Background
• Politics dominated the revolutionary phase of American writing.
• The crisis in American life carried by the Revolution made artists self-conscious about American subjects.
• In 1630 the puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• Independent War (1776-1783); the foundation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic—the United States of America.
• At the age of 18, he accompanied the group to Holland to escape persecution.
• 13 years later he was one of those who, on December 11, took on the Mayflower and entered Plymouth Bay.
• From 1622 until his death, Bradford was reelected thirty timed as governor.
• Masterpiece: OBaidu Nhomakorabea Plymouth Plantation
.
8
Anne Bradstreet (安妮·布拉 德斯特里特) (1612-1672)
histories, travel accounts, diaries, biographies, letters, autobiographies, sermons, and poems.
.
6
Major writers:
Captain John Smith （约翰·史密斯）
the first American writer
A Description of New England 《新英格兰叙事》 (1616)
General History of Virginia《弗吉尼亚通史》 （1642）
• Pocahontas
.
7
William Bradford (1590-1657)
• One of the greatest of colonial American, wholly consecrated to a mission in which he regarded himself as an instrument of God.
American Literature
.
1
American literature
• The Literature of Colonial Period • The Literature of Reason and Revolution • The literature of Romanticism • The Literature of Realism • The Literature of The 20th century
• Puritans look upon themselves as a chosen people, and it follow logically that anyone who challenged their way of life is opposing God’s will and is not to be accepted.
.
12
Benjamin Franklin
• American politician, scientist, inventor, and educator.
• The spiritual life in the colonies during that period was molded by the bourgeois Enlightenment.
.
11
2. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790):
• The Autobiography • Poor Richard’s Almanack
.
2
The Literature of Colonial Period
.
3
Historical background
• The first permanent English settlement in North America at James town, Virginia in 1607.
• Puritan opposition to pleasure and the arts sometimes has been exaggerated.
• Religious teaching tended to emphasize the image of a
wrathful God.
.
5
Types of writing:
.
4
Puritanism: American Puritans
• Puritans want to make up pure their religious beliefs and practices.
• Puritans wish to restore simplicity to church services and the authority of the Bible to theology.
the first American woman poet
a Puritan poet, once called “Tenth Muse”
most famous poems— “Contemplations”《沉思录》
.
9
The Literature of Reason and Revolution