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◆ American Puritans’ lives were extremely disciplined and hard. They drove out of their settlements all those opinions that seemed dangerous to them.
2 Help the students to know about the main literary form, content and theme in Colonial America and the representative writers of this period.
3 Help the students know about the American history of Independence War and the representatives in the period of Reason and Revolution, especially their influence on American Literature.
4 Make the students have a good understanding of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin.
5 Make sure the students understand clearly about Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and its influence on the latter Americans.
religion—the most important thing; living for glorifying God; believing predestination, original sin, total depravity, limited atonement
◆ Life style of Puritans: pious austere of taste diligent thrift rigid sense of morality self-reliant
1.2 Puritan Thought
Puritanism: the practices and beliefs of the Puritans ◆ Puritans: Calvinists. ◆ Puritans wanted to “purify the church” to its
original state. ◆ To be a Puritan:
Lecture 1
The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason aFra Baidu bibliotekd Revolution
Teaching Objectives and Requirements
1 Make the students know clear about American Puritanism and its influence on American Literature.
◆ They were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. But in the grim struggle for survival after their arrival in America, they became more and more practical.
1 Literature of the Colonial America (1607-1765)
2 Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-End of 18th C)
1.1 Historical Background
In 1492, Christopher Columbus found the new continent called America. Spanish (the first town on the new continent) Dutch (New York city) French (French: lots of people’s mother tongue in North America); English (first settled in Jamestown of Virginia in 1607) In1620, the famous “May Flower” shipped 102 Puritans to Plymouth.
◆ They were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles. They wanted to purify their religious beliefs and practices. They came to America out of various reasons.
American Puritanism: the practices and beliefs of the American Puritans
◆ American Puritans were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church, who came into existence in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I.
2 Help the students to know about the main literary form, content and theme in Colonial America and the representative writers of this period.
3 Help the students know about the American history of Independence War and the representatives in the period of Reason and Revolution, especially their influence on American Literature.
4 Make the students have a good understanding of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin.
5 Make sure the students understand clearly about Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and its influence on the latter Americans.
religion—the most important thing; living for glorifying God; believing predestination, original sin, total depravity, limited atonement
◆ Life style of Puritans: pious austere of taste diligent thrift rigid sense of morality self-reliant
1.2 Puritan Thought
Puritanism: the practices and beliefs of the Puritans ◆ Puritans: Calvinists. ◆ Puritans wanted to “purify the church” to its
original state. ◆ To be a Puritan:
Lecture 1
The Literature of the Colonial America and of Reason aFra Baidu bibliotekd Revolution
Teaching Objectives and Requirements
1 Make the students know clear about American Puritanism and its influence on American Literature.
◆ They were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. But in the grim struggle for survival after their arrival in America, they became more and more practical.
1 Literature of the Colonial America (1607-1765)
2 Literature of Reason and Revolution (1765-End of 18th C)
1.1 Historical Background
In 1492, Christopher Columbus found the new continent called America. Spanish (the first town on the new continent) Dutch (New York city) French (French: lots of people’s mother tongue in North America); English (first settled in Jamestown of Virginia in 1607) In1620, the famous “May Flower” shipped 102 Puritans to Plymouth.
◆ They were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles. They wanted to purify their religious beliefs and practices. They came to America out of various reasons.
American Puritanism: the practices and beliefs of the American Puritans
◆ American Puritans were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church, who came into existence in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I.