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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,American Literature,Lecture 2,Colonial American Literature,By,张慧,hzhang8311,Contents,Historical Background,Major literary forms,Writers of Colonial period,Puritan Poets of colonial period,Anne Bradstreet,Edward Taylor,Characteristics of puritan writing,Time,Early 17th Century the middle of the 18th C,Population,Dominant Thought,Puritanism,Historical Background,Population,Native,Indians,(2000 tribes originally),European Settlers,:,Spanish, Dutch,French, Italian, German, Swedish and Portuguese,British Settlers,: two groups,Negro Slaves were introduced into Virginia (1619) and spread to New England.,In the 16th Century, the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and other Parts of Central and South America had been occupied by the Spanish.,Frenchman,Swedes,Dutch,Germans and Scotch-Irish,Negroes,American Indians,All contributed to the forming of the American civilization, but the colonies that became the first United States were for the most part sustained by English traditions.,Spanish,The British Settlers ,two groups,Explorers like Captain John Smith,1607,Jamestown,Virginia,for adventure and commercial gains,Puritans,(,New England,Settlers,),1620,Plymouth Colony at Massachusetts Coast,by the pilgrims came on the,Mayflower,William Bradford, the most notable early governor,1630,Massachusetts Bay Colony,John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts Bay Group,Boston, from the very beginning is the centre of learning,Early in the 17th Century, the English Settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.,The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.,Puritan,Puritan,A “would-be purifier”,An idealist,believing that the Church should be restored to the “purity” of the first-century Church as established by Jesus Christ himself.,Religious belief,original sin,total depravity,Predestination,limited atonement,Puritan thoughts,Make pure their religious belief and practices,Restore simplicity to church services,Restore the authority of Bible to theology,Hold extreme opinions and intolerant of beliefs of the others,Lead disciplined and hard life, stressing hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety,Value education,严肃 ，节制,American Puritanism,Origins,Calvinism, John Calvin (1509-1564), French theologian,Puritanism,a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England in the late 16th century.,the practices and beliefs of the Puritans who were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles.,Influence of Puritanism to America,For a time, Puritanism evokes antipathy and disgust in the minds of many Americans because of,its religious intolerance and bigotry,Its killjoy way of life,A dominant factor of American life and one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and literature,optimism of puritans,Walt Whitman, Emerson and Thoreau,puritans metaphorical mode of perception,American literary symbolism: Hawthorne, Melville and Howells, etc.,Colonial American Literature- Major literary forms,Indian American Literature,Oral Literature,White American Literature,travelogue, journal, reports, letters,historical records, religious tracts, pious poetry,Writers of Colonial Period First Group,John Smith (1580-1631),founder of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia,“the first American writer”,A Map of Virginia; General History of Virginia,William Bradford,the first governor of the Plymouth Plantation,letters and other prose writings,The,History,Of Plymouth Plantation,John Winthrop,the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,Journal,The History of New England,These above-mentioned works deal with,the authors adventure experiences in the new continent,the geographical introduction of the colonies,Significance of these works,historical significance,Literary: simplicity, honesty and candidness,Characteristics of writings - first group,Writers of Colonial Period Second Group:,Puritan,Writers,John Cotton,the first major intellectual spokesman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,the “Patriarch of New England”,Pamphlets of Puritan argument, better known for his sermons,Much more concerned with authority than with democracy,Roger Williams,More democratic in his view of church government,Begin the history of Religious toleration and the separation between state and church,Founder of the community named Providence in Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island),Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612-1672),born and educated in England,came to America in 1630 with her father and husband,the first noted poetess in colonial period,good at dealing with simple events of daily life,The Tenth Muse,Lately Sprung Up in America,Contemplations (9),Anne Bradstreet,I heard the merry,grasshopper,then,sing,.,The black-clad,cricket,bear a second,part,;,They kept one tune and played on the same,string,.,Seeming to glory in their little,art,.,Shall creatures abject thus their voices r,aise,And in their kind resound their Makers Pr,aise,Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher l,ays,?,a,b,a,b,c,c,c,Rhythm,Grasshopper,Cricket,To My Dear and Loving Husband,Anne Bradstreet,If ever two were one,then surely we,If ever man were loved by wife,then thee;,If ever wife was happy in a man,Compare with me, ye woman, if you can.,I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,Or all the riches that the East doth hold.,My love is such that rivers cannot quench.,Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.,The love is such I can no way repay,The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.,Then while we live, in love lets so persevere,That when we live no more, we may live ever.,Edward Taylor (1642-1729),came from England as a young man and attended Harvard,the most accomplished puritan poets of the early years,most works deal with religious themes,Huswifery,Upon a Spider Catching a Fly,Preparatory Meditation,Huswifery (part),Edward Taylor,Make me, O Lord, thy,spinning wheel,complete.,Thy holy word my,distaff,make for me.,Make mine affections thy swift,flyers,neat,And make my soul thy holy,spool,to be.,My Conversation make to be thy,reel,And reel the yarn thereon spun of thy,wheel,.,Characteristics of Puritan writings,Form,personal literature: diaries, journals, letters, travel books,historical records,sermons, pious poetry,Content,strongly religious,Rhetorical features (Language),Fresh and simple; Direct and honest,faithfully imitated and transplanted English literary traditions,Thanks for your attention!,
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