Lecture 7 The Literature of the Colonial Period

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The Literature of the Colonial Period

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The Literature of the Colonial Period

Do you know them?

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Emily Dickinson

Mark Twain

Benjamin Franklin

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The Outline of American LiteratureI Colonial Period (1607—1765) II Revolutionary Period (1765—1800) III The Age of Romanticism (1800—1865) IV The Age of Realism (1865—1918) V American Modernism (1918—1945) VI Contemporary Literature (1945-- )

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Assignment Recitation (before 14th week)

1) excerpt: more than 6 lines;2) a complete poem

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The Literature of the Colonial Period (1607---1765)

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American Indians/ Native Americans The first movement crossed over the Bering Strait to Alaska

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America the New World Who rediscovered America? Christopher Columbus, 1492 Early Settlement 1.1607, Captain John Smith Jamestown (詹姆士镇) the first permanent English settlement

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2.1620, William Bradford, Mayflower Plymouth, Massachusetts Puritans The Puritan migration began. American Puritanism

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Puritanism in America Why did Puritans come to America? to reform the Church of England to have an entirely new church to escape religious persecution To seek a new Garden of Eden To build “City of God on earth”

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Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans who were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were mostly Puritans. They were serious, religious, advocating highly moral principles. As the word itself hints, Puritans wanted to purity their religious practices and beliefs.

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They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through the grace from God. They believe in hard work, thrift, piety, sobriety, and simple tastes. American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.

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General Features of the Writings (Page 3) 1. Types of writing diaries, letters, histories etc. 2. Content serving either God or colonial expansion or both 3. Form imitating English literary traditions

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Early writers in the colonial period:

John SmithWilliam Bradford

John WinthropAnne Bradstreet

Edward Taylor

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John Smith (1580—1631) 约翰· 史密斯 a captain, one of the founders of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia the writer of A Description of New England 《新英格兰叙事》

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New England It is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, V

ermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

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The Literature of the Colonial Period

William Bradford (1590—1675) 威廉· 布莱福特 the governor of the Plymouth colony Of Plymouth Plantation 《普利茅斯垦殖记》

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John Winthrop (1588—1649) 约翰· 温斯罗普 the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony speech--- A Model of Christian Charity 《基督教博爱的典范》 “We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be as able to resist a thousand of our enemies…for we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.”

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Anne Bradstreet (1612—1672) 安妮.布雷特兹里特 Puritan Poet