1. The document discusses early American literature from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the mid-1700s.
2. It describes the Puritan experiment in Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of John Winthrop, including their religious beliefs in predestination and rejecting the authority of popes and bishops.
3. As the colonies expanded, the population grew more diverse with English, Dutch, German, French Protestants and Jewish merchants settling in cities like Philadelphia, which became the unofficial capital and second largest city of commerce after London by 1750.
Outline of 26 face-to-face sessions for the 2015-2016 course:
Captain John Smith – Oct 7th
William Bradford – Oct 14th
Anne Bradstreet – Oct 21st
Mary Rowlandson – Oct 28th
Jonathan Edwards – Nov 4th
Benjamin Franklin – Nov 11th
Olaudah Equiano – Nov 18th
Phillis Wheatley – Nov 25th
Washington Irving – Dec 2nd
James Fenimore Cooper – Dec 9th
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Dec 16th
Henry David Thoreau – Jan 13th
Review past exams – Jan 20th
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Feb 17th
Herman Melville – Feb 24th
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Mar 2nd
Edgar Allan Poe – Mar 9th
Frederick Douglass – Mar 16th
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Mar 30th
Walt Whitman – Apr 6th
Emily Dickinson– Apr 13th
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) – Apr 20th
Henry James – Apr 27th
Kate Chopin – May 4th
Stephen Crane – May 11th
Review past exams – May 18th
Outline of 26 face-to-face sessions for the 2015-2016 course:
Captain John Smith – Oct 7th
William Bradford – Oct 14th
Anne Bradstreet – Oct 21st
Mary Rowlandson – Oct 28th
Jonathan Edwards – Nov 4th
Benjamin Franklin – Nov 11th
Olaudah Equiano – Nov 18th
Phillis Wheatley – Nov 25th
Washington Irving – Dec 2nd
James Fenimore Cooper – Dec 9th
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Dec 16th
Henry David Thoreau – Jan 13th
Review past exams – Jan 20th
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Feb 17th
Herman Melville – Feb 24th
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Mar 2nd
Edgar Allan Poe – Mar 9th
Frederick Douglass – Mar 16th
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Mar 30th
Walt Whitman – Apr 6th
Emily Dickinson– Apr 13th
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) – Apr 20th
Henry James – Apr 27th
Kate Chopin – May 4th
Stephen Crane – May 11th
Review past exams – May 18th
Chapter 1b of a university course in media history by Prof. Bill Kovarik, based on the book Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2015).
DE VERENIGDE STATEN – VAN COLUMBUS TOT OBAMA
De Verenigde Staten zijn het machtigste land ter wereld, en een zeldzaam succesvol experiment van twee eeuwen. Vier tophistorici geven op deze cd’s een verhelderend beeld van deze korte maar zeer intrigerende geschiedenis.
Eduard van de Bilt vertelt over de koloniale tijd, waarin gedurende driehonderd jaar de Europese grootmachten Spanje, Nederland, Frankrijk en Groot-Brittannië elk een deel van het Amerikaanse continent probeerden te koloniseren. Jaap Verheul gaat verder met de founding fathers van de republiek, een uniek democratisch experiment in een wereld die nog gedomineerd werd door monarchaal gezag.
Frans Verhagen vertelt over de periode waarin de Verenigde Staten van een naar binnen gericht land veranderde in een onomstreden wereldmacht. En ten slotte betoogt Maarten van Rossem dat de huidige geschiedschrijving te veel waarde hecht aan politieke geschiedenis en presidenten: “Terugkijkend kun je stellen dat zij er weinig toe doen.”
Cd 1: Van de koloniale tijd tot de Onafhankelijkheidsverklaring van 1776 – dr. Eduard van de Bilt
Cd 2: Van de onafhankelijkheidsverklaring tot de Burgeroorlog (1776-1860) – dr. Jaap Verheul
Cd 3: Van de burgeroorlog tot de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1860-1940) – Frans Verhagen
Cd 4: Vanaf de Tweede Wereldoorlog tot nu en verder (na 1940)
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