美国文学史第一讲.ppt

Captain John Smith (1580—1631) Almost from the beginning, as the English settled along the Atlantic coast of America, there were important differences between the Southern and the New England colonies. In the South, enormous farms or plantations used the labor of black slaves to grow tobacco. The rich and powerful plantation owners were slow to develop a literature of their own. They preferred books imported from England. Anne Bradstreet (1612----1672) “To My Dear and Loving Husband” If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;? If ever wife was happy in a man,? Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold?  Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.? Then while we live, in love lets so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever. Cotton Mather (1663----1728) Cotton Mather, the master pedant, Son and grandson of influential Puritan ministers, Cotton Mather was himself a clergyman, involved in several important events in New England life including the trial of scores of people for witchcraft in the 1690s. He wrote at length of New England in over 500 books and pamphlets. Cotton Mather had an insane genius for advertising himself. Whenever something happened to him in his life, he wrote a religious book. When his first wife died, he published a long sermon called Death Made Easy and Happy. When his little daughter died, he wrote The Best Way of Living, Which is to Die Daily. But some, such as his famous Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), were very long and were published in many volumes. He was certain that his longest work, The Angel of Bethesda (1723), would “prove one of the most useful books that have been published in the World”(1). Cotton Mather Cotton Mather (1663----1728) Forward Ma