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09/17 美國文學 week 2: Introduction of colonial period to revolutionary period

2014/11/24 22:16

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Quiz explanation

1. Puritans "May Flower"

Church of England -> 英國國教-> Kantebert 亨利八世婚姻問題

Cathlic 天主教

Episcopal

Pilgrims 朝聖者，分離教派者，separatist

2. 1700-1820 Colonial period (nation period)

propoganda 政治文宣

pro-: in favor

1. propose

2. protagnist

subversive

4. spain& 葡最早開發Florida

西方第一個號稱民主 -> 英國議會政治

=> 蘇格蘭 & 魁北克獨立問題

African slavery

原住民 Natives

5. promise land (e.g.摩西)

initial wonder, exploitation

We are chosen to the rest of all -> Bible => chosen people

election 的概念 -> life depend on predestiny

About promise land

1. The promise is first made to Abraham (Genesis 15:18-21) and then renewed to his son Isaac, and to Isaac's son Jacob (Genesis 28:13), Abraham's grandson.

2. The promised land was described in terms of the territory from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates river (Exodus 23:31) and was given to their descendants after Moses led the Exodus out of Egypt.

Colonial Period (national period) 1700-1820

Jame the first -> Jamestown

savannas

教堂上的尖頂 steeple

About Jonathan Edwards

1. The most impressive mind of the colonial period.

2. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals.

3. Edwards's theological work is broad in scope, but he was rooted in Reformed theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage.

4. His greatest work:"Freedom of Will" has been neglected in the general history of American thought ever since the decline of the P
uritan in fluence in the country.

5. His work: "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God"

=> original sin, Jesus

About Anne Bradstreet

1. She was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature.

2. Her famous work: "The Author to Her Book", "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America"

About Edward Taylor

1. He hold the chief place as a most gifted of the Puritan poets.

2. His famous work: "Meditation Eight"

Revolutionary Period 1763-1810

1. This was the American Age of Enlightenment, a fateful time when monarchy colapsed and democracy arose, when Puritanism weakened and rationalism became wide-spread.

2. The central document in this period was The Declaration of Independence.

3. 伏爾泰，洛克

4. 1776 美國獨立，英國啟蒙

5. We hold the truth to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty,and the pursuit of happiness.

=>movie: The Pursuit of Happyness (當幸福來敲門)

About Benjamin Franklin

1. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and in many ways was "the First American".

2. He was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.

3. His famous work: "Autobiography", "Poor Richard's Almanak"

About Thomas Paine

1. He was an English and American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

2. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination"

3. Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution.

4. His powerful pamphlet Common Sense (1776), the all-time best-selling[4] American title which crystallized the rebellious demand for ndependence from Great Britain.

5.Thomas Paine 受啟蒙年代的影響，Common Sense 後來影響法國大革命。

=>管的最少的政府才是最好的政府 (最早出現在Thoreau)

=> 天賦人權

* 管的最少的政府才是最好的政府引用:

1. Al Gore's Concession Speech

2. Commen Sense

3. Check & Balance

4. Electroral College

5. Manifest Destiny

About Thomas Jefferson

1. was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).

2. At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia, and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781).

3. In opposition to Alexander Hamilton's Federalism, Jefferson and his close friend, James Madison, organized the Democratic-Republican Party, and later resigned from Washington's cabinet.

About The federalist

1. It is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution.

2. 三權分立: legislative, executive, judiciary