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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 《发怒的上帝手中的罪人》 上帝憎恨你们，把你们抓起来放在地狱之火上烘烤，就像一个人在火堆上烧着一只蜘蛛或令人作呕的昆虫一样。 His position He was the last great voice that was ever heard in America to reassert the Calvinist stance so as to bring the people back to its fold. He was in part instrumental in bringing about the Great Awakening. He was the first modern American and the country’s last medieval man. III. Literature and the American Revolution: (1776-1815) A. Historical Overview Enlightenment The 18th-century American Enlightenment was a movement marked by an emphasis on rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy. Enlightenment thinkers and writers were devoted to the ideals of justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of man. The American Culture As it is significant to our sense of literary history, Puritan influential declined in the period, partly due to the challenge of Enlightenment ideas, and partly because the rise of Philadelphia, Hartford, New York gained these cities the status of literary capitals paving the way for the appearance of modern American novel and drama. The Significance of the American Revolution The hard-fought American Revolution against Britain was the first modern war of liberation against a colonial power. Military victory fanned nationalistic hopes for a great new literature. Noah Webster “美国在政治上独立了，在文学方面也必须独立；美国以军事著称，也必须以艺术著称世界。” 1783 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) His life His position His life General Introduction Benjamin Franklin came from a Calvinist background. He was born into a poor candle-maker’s family. He had very little education. He learned in school only for two years, but he was a voracious reader. At 12, he was apprenticed to his elder half-brother, a printer. At 16, he began to publish essays under the pseudonym “Silence Do good” . At 17, he ran away to Philadelphia to