美国文学Lecture 2

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,*,*,*,Lecture 2,Colonial America,Puritan and Puritanism in Colonial America,Pious idealism,Metaphorical mode of perception:the physical phenomenal world was nothing but a symbol of God.,Austerity and rigidity,Style of Puritan writings,Fresh,Simple,Direct,Plain and honest rhetoric,With a touch of nobility often traceable to the direct influence of the Bible,Humble origins of American literature,Personal literature in various form:,Diaries,Histories,Journals,Letters,Commonplace books,Travel books,sermons,The first early 17th-century British settlers in North America,Captain John Smith,William Bradford,John Winthrop,Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672),Puritan Poet,Four elements:the constitutions and ages of man,the seasons of the year,and the chief empires of the ancient world,Her works search for a sense of mans nature and destiny and his mission in the new world.,Edward Taylor(1642-1729),Meditative poet,nearest to the English Baroque poets,Un-Puritan imagery,however,first and last,a Puritan poet,Concerned about how his images speak for God,Roger Williams(1603-1683),Puritan dissenter,Upholding the spiritual freedom of the individual:civil right,John,Woolman,(1720-1772),Preacher,Religious piety,the ideal of humanitarianism,the kind,gentle character of the man,Thoreau and the New England Transcendentalists,Thomas Paine,（,1737-1809,）,Unswerving fight for the right of man,Common Sense,Philip Freneau,（,1752-1832,）,Poet in the service of a nation struggling for independence,See life directly:“The Wild Honey Suckle”,“The Indian Burying Ground”,Cooper,Emerson,Poe and Melville,Charles,Brockden,Brown(1771-1810),18-century novelist,The first American novel,Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne,Jonathan Edwards(1703-1758),Religious idealism,Benjamin Franklin(1706-90),Levelheaded common sense,Hector St.John de,Crevecoeur,(1735-1813),Ideal and anti-ideal,