美国文学Lecture 2.ppt

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1、Lecture 2Colonial AmericaPuritan and Puritanism in Colonial AmericaPious idealismMetaphorical mode of perception:the physical phenomenal world was nothing but a symbol of God.Austerity and rigidityStyle of Puritan writings FreshSimpleDirectPlain and honest rhetoricWith a touch of nobility often trac

2、eable to the direct influence of the BibleHumble origins of American literaturePersonal literature in various form:DiariesHistoriesJournalsLetters Commonplace booksTravel bookssermonsThe first early 17th-century British settlers in North America Captain John SmithWilliam BradfordJohn WinthropAnne Br

3、adstreet(1612-1672)Puritan PoetFour elements:the constitutions and ages of man,the seasons of the year,and the chief empires of the ancient worldHer 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 Bar

4、oque poetsUn-Puritan imagery,however,first and last,a Puritan poetConcerned about how his images speak for GodRoger Williams(1603-1683)Puritan dissenterUpholding the spiritual freedom of the individual:civil rightJohn Woolman(1720-1772)PreacherReligious piety,the ideal of humanitarianism,the kind,ge

5、ntle character of the manThoreau and the New England TranscendentalistsThomas Paine（1737-1809）Unswerving fight for the right of manCommon SensePhilip Freneau（1752-1832）Poet in the service of a nation struggling for independenceSee life directly:“The Wild Honey Suckle”“The Indian Burying Ground”Cooper,Emerson,Poe and Melville Charles Brockden Brown(1771-1810)18-century novelistThe first American novelEdgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel HawthorneJonathan Edwards(1703-1758)Religious idealismBenjamin Franklin(1706-90)Levelheaded common senseHector St.John de Crevecoeur(1735-1813)Ideal and anti-ideal