清教主义对美国文学的影响的论文资料

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TITLE:Analysis of Influences of Puritanism on

American literature

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MAJOR: English Education

DEPARTMENT: English Education Department

COLLEGE: Faculty of Western Languages

and Literatures

May, 2012

Analysis of Influences of Puritanism on American literature

BAI Chun-hui

Abstract:As a red line the Puritan tradition has specified the United States from colonial times to today's political culture and social culture. Puritanism is a milestone of the development and direction of American Literary. A national literary produce, development and prosperity always are influenced by its ideology, culture, customs and moral habits and values, etc. American literature has been strong influenced of Puritanism since its budding time, too. The effect is profound and extensive extremely, so it can not be ignored in the study of American literature. Through analyzing the origins, the philosophy, the characteristics and impacts on mainstream American values of Puritanism, in order to explore deeply the influence of Puritanism on American Literature, the essay says specifically that American Puritanism has impacted greatly on American literary writing attitudes, writing themes and symbolic writing styles, and so on.

Keywords: Puritanism; values; Literature; Attitude; Theme; Symbolism

1.Introduction

It is self-evident that the importance of understanding Puritanism to study American literature. the body of this article is divided totally into four parts: first, it introduces the Puritanism and its philosophy, in order to have an initial understanding of Puritanism; second, the analysis of some of the features of Puritanism, so that understand clearly their expression of ideas; then, it discusses Puritanism influences on American literature, which lists some representative works of writers for readers to understand the article very well; Finally, the part makes a summary of the entire article.

2. Puritanism and Its Philosophy

These first immigrants were far away from continental Europe in 1620 by the “Mayflower”, with mixed feelings to start their colonial pioneer in New England, Plymouth. According to statistics, from 1630 to 1640, foreign Puritans fled were about 60,000, of which a considerable portion of people crossed the ocean fearlessly and moved to the desolated North American continent, later in New England and other places to establish colonies. War of Independence broke out in 1775, at least 75% of people who grew up in a Puritan family in more than 260 million inhabitants of the 13 colonies. Due to the large number of Puritans were highly educated, had a religious cohesion, had a tremendous impact on the development of the colony, Puritans gradually became the mainstream American cultural groups, namely the WASP (a devout Protestant, with the white of English descent). They brought on “Justification by faith, the idea of calling, a city upon a hill” and other core Puritan conceptions to North America to practice their own beliefs and ideals in this barren