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New England: Colonial Period 17 C

During the colonial period in the 17th century, English settlers established colonies in North America including New England, Middle England, and Southern England. In New England, the Puritan settlers focused on religious writings as they believed hard work would lead to salvation. Important works included William Bradford's Plymouth Plantation and sermons by Jonathan Edwards. Middle England settlers were more tolerant and focused on economic development rather than literature. In Southern England, the aristocracy owned plantations while farmers worked the land, leading to more secular writings about social and aristocratic life like William Byrd's History of the Dividing Line. During the national period in the late 18th century, influential works included Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and Thomas Paine's political pamph

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New England: Colonial Period 17 C

During the colonial period in the 17th century, English settlers established colonies in North America including New England, Middle England, and Southern England. In New England, the Puritan settlers focused on religious writings as they believed hard work would lead to salvation. Important works included William Bradford's Plymouth Plantation and sermons by Jonathan Edwards. Middle England settlers were more tolerant and focused on economic development rather than literature. In Southern England, the aristocracy owned plantations while farmers worked the land, leading to more secular writings about social and aristocratic life like William Byrd's History of the Dividing Line. During the national period in the late 18th century, influential works included Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and Thomas Paine's political pamph

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Colonial period 17thc

It was a literature f exploration. The English people made colonies in South America: New
England, middle and southern England.
New England
People were puritans and they think that if you work hard you will get the heaven so the most
writing were religious.
- William Bradford of Plymouth plantation (non religious story).
- Jonathan Edwards: sinners in the hand of an angry god (it was a sermon).
- Michel Wigglesworth: the day of Doom (a poem of the end of the world).
Middle England
People were tolerant.
We do not find important literature as the New England, because they were more interested in
the economic aspect. And it was written by English people considered as American people.
Southern England
William Byrd: history of the dividing lines.
People were protestant and do not pay attention to religion.
The purpose of the writers of that time was not about religion as in New England but was for
agriculture of its fertile: farmers work in the land and the aristocrat own it. So writing was
secular, they wrote about the social life focusing in the real life of aristocrats = literature was
written.
National period
Southern and middle England people were not interesting on writing, so it was difficult to
move from it because people like the writing of whom they know.
Writers:
- Benjamin Franklin: autobiography; he wrote about his success because he was famous.
- Thomas Paine: common sense; pamplet (a genre) for political purpose, he was just urgent
people to separate from Britain and describing Britain as a country taken profit from the
new world and asking people to a revolution.
Romantic period 1820-1860 also known as American renaissance
Romanticism influenced the romantic period by the religion, philosophy, politics and science.
Transcendentalism is a philosophic movement that mean going beyond limits (every where
there is knowledge):
1. Nature is source of knowledge.
2. All souls belong to the god soul. (People are equal).
3. inner light: light will guide you to knowledge by feeling
Religion:
In the new world man is seen as good or evil but in the romantic period he is seen as both.
Politics:
How philosophy influenced politics: by the transcendentalism movement; as all souls are
equal, men are equal.
Philosophy:
To find knowledge we follow our feeling and intuition not the logic and the reason.
Science:
People did not reject science as knowledge has no limit but they rejected the extreme science
because it destroys feeling.

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