美國文學殖民地時期的文學-展示頁
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【正文】 ops, about dealing with Indians. All seemed possible to them in the new world through hard work and faith.1) Captain John Smithl His reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, were the first distinctly American literature to be written in English. Smith’s descriptions of America were filled with themes, myths, images, scenes, characters, and events that were a foundation for the nation’s literature. He portrayed English North America as a land of endless bounty.His vision helped lure the Pilgrims and the Puritans who saw themselves as new saints with a spiritual mission to flee the Old World and create a New Israel (JerusalemHeaven on earth), a New Promised Land, in the America that John Smith had described.2) The writers of the Southern and Middle Coloniesl The writers of the Southern and Middle Colonies who followed John Smith made their greatest contribution to American literature in the 18th century, in the Age of Reason and Revolution.l William Byrd II Thomas JeffersonUntil that time, literature developed slowly, especially in the South. Farms widely dispersed. Towns were few. Illiteracy was high. And there was little of the religious ferment and zeal that inspired such a tide of literature to flow from Puritan New England.The First American Writerl Captain John Smith (15801631) was the first American writer and he published eight in all.l 1) A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony (1608), defending the handling of the settlement and proclaiming the merits of the new landl 2) A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the Country (1612), a guide to the country and an invitation to the bold sprits needed to enlarge and strengthen the English plantations in the new landl 3) General History of Virginia (1624), containing his most famous tale of how the Indian princess Pocahontas saved him from the wrath of her father Powhatanl Captain John Smith contributed more to the survival of the Jamestown colony than did anyone else. And he saw from the beginning what was eventually to be a basic principle of American history, the need of “workers” instead of “gentlemen” for the tough job of planting colonies and pushing the frontiers westward.Early New England Literaturel New England: → (Map)l A region of the northeast United States prising the modern states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.1) A literature of ideas: New England had from the beginning a literature of ideas: theological, moral, historical, political. The Puritans had e to New England for the sake of religious freedom, while Virginia had been planted mainly as a merc
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