美国2TheLiteratureofReasonandRevolution学习课件.pptVIP

The Literature of Reason and Revolution Questions for review： 1) The features of Romanticism, Realism and Modern Literature. 2) Give a description of American Puritans. Historical Introduction By the mid-eighteenth century colonial America was no longer a group of scattered, struggling settlements. It was a series of neighboring, flourishing colonies with rapidly expanding, mixed populations. The growth, particularly the industrial growth, led to intense strain with England. In the seventies of the 18th century the English colonies in North America rose in arms against their mother country. The War for Independence last for 8 years. The spiritual life in the colonies during that period was to a great degree moulded by the bourgeois(资产阶级）enlightenment. ?Such a time of storm and stress, of revolution and evolution, is pretty certain, especially in a new country, if it bring forth literature at all, to bring forth such as is predominantly political in content, style, and purpose. The Revolutionary leaders who have left a large and permanent impress upon American literature were concerned chiefly with such weighty matters as the nature of the British constitution, the formulation of colonial rights, and the elaboration of schemes of government and administration; and it was of these things that they chiefly wrote. The Reason and Revolution?(1750-1800) ???? In the 18th century, people believed in man’s own nature and the power of human reason. With Franklin as its spokesman, the 18th century America experienced an age of reason. Words had never been so useful and so important in human history. People wrote a lot of political writings. Numerous pamphlets and printings were published. These works agitated revolutionary people not only in America but also around the world During this period there were many brilliant authors that helped shape the country.? They all had different types of writings and different things that they wrote about.? These au