1. UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLOGICA DE EL
SALVADOR.
SUBJECT.
LITERATURE
NAMES:
Elizabeth Moran
Mirna Jerusalen Funes
Loida Mabel Nuñez

2. EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE
In 1607 John Smith
was established
Jamestown.
Account of the New
World.
Captain John
Smith, Description of
New England (1616).

3. 1607 Rumour about the paradise.
Thomas Jeffeson has been writen in the
State of Virginia 1785-1787.

4. THE PURITAN EXPERIMENT PLYMOUTH
PLANTATION
Pilgrims thoutht of themselve as soldier in a
war against Satan.
Pilgrims in Holland→England (1620)---
Virginia Plantation
↘Plymouth→Massachusetts
Bay Colony (1691)

5. THE PURITAN EXPERIMENT: THE
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY
Leadership of John Winthrop.
Religious believes:
1. Martin Luther: no pop or bishop had a right to
impose any law on a Christian soul without consent

6. 2. John Calvin: God chose freely those He would
save and those He would damn eternally
--Puritan letters, diaries, histories, and poetry .
1. attest to faith, a “noble design,” to make daily
life bearable.

7. PURITAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Writing of history in high regard: progression
toward the fulfillment of God’s design on earth .
Self-consciousness: God’s hand present in every
human event, rewarded good and punished bad.
Cotton Mather, Magnalia
Christi Americana (1702)

8. AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE
Population.
Community of helping souls.
Diversity: English, Dutch, German, French
Protestants, Jewish merchants.
Philadelphia (1750), unofficial capital, second
only to London as a city of commerce

9. In 1686 , the Quaker William
Penn exchanged a large claim
against the Crown for land in the
New World.

10. THE ENLIGHTENMENT
1662 the founding of the British
scientific academy.
Science & philosophy→less attention
to religion→seeing every
natural, human event as a message
from God.

11. Deists:
1. Deduce the existence of a supreme
being from the construction of the
universe itself rather than from the
Bible
2. not interested in theology but in
humankind’s own nature