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Colonial America
American literature is the youngest literature, because America was not discovered until the end of 16th C, and it is believed that American literature didn’t begin until the 19th C.Our first lecture will be brief about American literature of the Colonial Period, which is from the early 17th C through the end of the 18th C, that is, from the settlement of America through American Revolution.The settlement of the North American Continent by the English began in the early part of the 17thC.In Nov, 1620, May Flower, with more than 100 immigrants from England arrived in America.They became the founding fathers of the American nation.The New England emerged, thus began the history of America.Many of these immigrants were puritans.The puritans were so suppreed in England that they sought escape.They carried Puritanism with them to America and hoped that they could build a kingdom of freedom here.Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influence in American thought and literature.The beliefs can be summarized as the following:
1.Original sin(total depravity)God created the first man-Adam, but Adam sinned by eating forbidden fruit.In Adam’s fall, we sinned all.As a result, much emphasis was placed on “original sin”.2.Predestination.God has decided in advance that certain souls will be saved and others will not.When one is born, God has already determined whether he will be saved or not.He and no one else can decide who is to be saved and who is to go to hell.In this period, most of the American literature was personal literature, such as diaries, journals, letters, travel books, sermons.The most popular genre was poetry, most of which were religious.In form, English literature were imitated and transplanted.
