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2.2 Time Line/History Survey
Pre-1400 Hundreds of American Indians tribes inhabit the America before European explorers arrive 1492 Christopher Columbus lands in the New World 1617 Jamestown, Virginia: the first permanent English settlement 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth

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A Historical Survey
1620,
Mayflower 1776, The Declaration of Independence 1789, George Washington 1791, Washington D. C.

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4.1 What is American Romanticism?
A literary movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Romantic literature generally exhibits some of these six characteristics:

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Six characteristics
1.a profound love of nature 2.a focus on the self and the individual 3.a fascinate with the super the mysterious, the gothic 4.a yearning for the picturesque and the exotic 5.a deep-rooted idealism or love of the country 6.a passionate nationalism
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Lecture Four The Literature of Romanticism
Time Line 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France 1820 Washington Irving The Sketch Book 1823 James Fenimore Cooper, first of the Leatherstocking Tales 1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 The Scarlet Letter; Twice-Told Tales
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purify their religious beliefs and practices. They felt that the church of England was too close to the church of Rome in doctrine form of worship. The Puritans wished to restore simplicity to church services and authority of the Bible to theology.T he Puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people, and it followed logically that anyone who challenged their way of life was opposing God’s will and was not to be accepted.
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I Colonial Period (1607—1765)
Captain John Smith Mayflower What does “Puritan” mean ? Mayflower Compact and William Bradford Enlightenment
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2.4 What does “Puritan” mean ?

Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans. The Puritans were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church. As the word itself hints, Puritans wanted
Parallelism

Parallelism is the repeating of phrase or sentence so that the repeated parts are alike in structure or in meaning. By using balanced sentences with parallelism structures,writer creates a rhythm that reinforces the message.
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3.2 Thomas Pain & The American Crisis
Questions
for reading The American
Crisis: 1.According to the first paragraph,whom is Pain criticizing? Whom is he praising? 2.What is the purpose of Britain’s army? 3.What “secret opinion”does Pain state about in the third paragraph? 4.What is the price of freedom, according to Pain?
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Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania
Gazette(newspaper) Poor Richard’s Almanac (an annual collection of statistics, weather forecasts proverbs) Autobiography (his best book)
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3.1 Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)
Benjamin
Franklin is a humanist, scientist and statesman. There was only one writer in the colonial period, whose works are read today.This is Benjamin Franklin , he is the only good American author before the Revolutionary War.
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2.3 Mayflower
The
ship “Mayflower” carried about 100 passengers(their leader called them pilgrims,or travelers) and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, the Mayflower put the pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Before the winter was over, half of them were dead. Only some of these first colonists were Puritans.
Lecture Two: The Literature of Colonial American
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2.1 The Outline of American Literature
I 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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Their
lives were disciplined and hard. Puritans tended to suspect joy and laughter as symptoms of sin. As a culture heritage, Puritanism did have a profound influence on the early American mind. American Puritanism also had an enduring influence on American literature.