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【正文】 f the Historiesl Both works are notable for their candid simplicity and honesty. Each book is the most valuable kind of historical sourcean account of events by a man who has been a major figure of his time. Both accounts were written, not from literary ambition, but from a sense of the need to record important events in permanent form. Yet, through a direct and vigorous prose style, each account attained literary excellence.Puritan Thoughtsl 1. What was a Puritan? l The “Puritan” was “a wouldbe purifier”. Puritans wanted to make pure their religious beliefs and practices. The word was coined by the opponents of the group and was applied to them in scorn。History And Anthology Of American LiteraturePart I The Literature of Colonial AmericaHistorical IntroductionThe First American Writings amp。 WritersPuritan ThoughtsHistorical Introductionl 1. The discovery of the American continent by Christopher Columbus in 1492Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America 2. English and European explorersThe earliest settlers included Dutch, Swedes, Germans, French, Spaniards, Italians, and Portuguese, each group settling in different parts of the continent and they all contributed to the forming of the American civilization, but the colonies that became the first United States were for the most part English sustained by English traditions, ruled by English laws, supported by English merce, and named after English monarchs and English lands.3. English and European settlementsThe first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. At last early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts began the main stream of what we recognize as the American history.Two Important New England Settlements→ (Map) The Plymouth ColonyFlagship Mayflower arrives – 1620 Leader William Bradford Settlers known as Pilgrims (朝圣者，朝覲者,清教徒前輩移民) and Separatists (主張脫離英國國教者) The Mayflower Compact provides for social, religious, and economic freedom, while still maintaining ties to Great Britain. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Flagship Arbella arrives – 1630 Leader John Winthrop Settlers are mostly Puritans or Congregational (公理會教派的) Puritans The Arbella Covenant clearly establishes a religious and theocratic (神權(quán)政治的) settlement, free of ties to Great Britain. 4. The first American writingsl The first writings that we call American were the narratives and journals of these settlements. They wrote in diaries and in journals. They wrote letters and contracts and government charters and religious and political statements. They wrote about their voyage to the new land, about adapting themselves to the unfamiliar climates and cr
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