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- PAGE 1 - A Concise History of American Literature Chapter 1 Colonial Period Jonathan Edwards life works The Freedom of the Will The Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended The Nature of True Virtue ideas – pioneer of transcendentalism The spirit of revivalism Regeneration of man God’s presence Puritan idealism Benjamin Franklin works Poor Richard’s Almanac Autobiography contribution He helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital and the American Philosophical Society. He was called “the new Prometheus who had stolen fire (electricity in this case) from heaven”. Everything seems to meet in this o