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S?PURITAN | AMERICAN STUDIES

Puritan is a broad term referring to

a number of Protestant groups whosought to purify the Church of

England which had been closely

connected to its government.

Small group led by WilliamBradford came to the New World in

1620.(Source: Wikipedia)

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The Bible provided a model for Puritan

writing each individual life was a journey

to salvation.

They saw a direct connection betweenBiblical events (allusions) and their own

lives.

They used writing to explore the inner and

outer lives for signs of the workings of

God.

Diaries and histories were the most

common types of literature.

They favored a plain style similar to that of the Geneva Bible and

stressed clear expressions over complicated figures of speech.(source: Wikipedia)

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H.L. MENCKEN (1880-1956) was one of the

greatest journalist in the history of United

States, and one of the most widely quoted

critics of American civilization.

Menckens name became an e

the 1920s revolt against Victori

1920s: He achieved his greates

as a newspaper columnist and

essayist forAmerican Mercury.

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CALVINISM is the natural theology of the disinherited; it never

flourished, therefore, anywhere as it did in the barren hills of

Scotland and in the wilds of North America.

by Dr. Leon Kellner

May be called its narrow technical

sense, that is, as a theory of God.

The New world as well as in the Old, it became

no more than a luxuriant demology, even Godhimself was transformed into a superior sort of

devil, ever wary and wholly merciless.

Dying a much harder death, and we are still a

long way from the englightenment.

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Continental influences have measurably corrupted the Puritan

idea

The prevailing American view of the world and its mysteries is

still a purely moral one, and no other human concern gets halfthe attention that is endlessly lavished upon the problem of

conduct, particularly of the other fellow.

It needed no announcement of a President of the United States

to define the republics destiny as that of an international expertin morals, and the mentor and exemplar of the less righteous

nations.

He is beyond all things else, a judge and a policeman; he believes

firmly that there is a mysterious power in law; he supports andembellishes its operation with a fanatical vigilance.

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Susan Lenox

by David Graham Philips

Hedda Gabler by Henrik

Ibsen

A novel or a play is judged among us, not by its dignity of conception,

its artistic honesty, its perfection of workmanship, but almost entirely

by its orthodoxy of doctrine, its platitudinousness, its usefulness as a

moral tract.

The Titan

Sister Carrie

by Theodore Dreiser

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Men of certain education

Austere culture

Not so much hostile to beauty

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Contract or covenant exists between God

and humanity.

Idea of contract between people and

government stems from that idea.

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Adept at twisting the ancient gauds and

shibboleths of Puritanism the partisan uses

Politics and religion coalesced in a manner

not seenAll men of any ability can join into the

political activity for self experience

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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowlyis an anti-

slavery novel by American author Harriet BeecherStowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the

groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will

Kaufman.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first

published in England in December 1884 and in the United States

in February 1885. Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional

character. He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year

older at the time of the latter.

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The Civil War brought that era of sterility to an end.

The shock of the civil war completely reorganized the American

scheme of things.

The civil war made certain important changes in the national

Puritanism.

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Whitman , whose career straddled, to speak and the

four years of the war.

He was the leader and for a long while he is the only trooper of adouble revolt.

example of his literary works : The Blue and The Gray,

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, War and Peace,

The Attack on the Mill .

The way of civil war literature is a few convetional melodramas.

example : short stories by Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane, and

idiotic popular songs in the manner of Randalls Maryland, My

Maryland .

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In the seventies and eights, with the appearance of such men as

Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Bret Harte.

example : Mark Twain : The Gilded Age

Harte : a brilliant technician

Howells and James : show that timorousness

and reticence which are the distinguishing

marks of the Puritan.

The neo-Puritanism : a frank harking back to the primitive spirit.The original Puritan of the bleak New England.

The new Puritanism : not ascetic, but militant

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Poverty

Being poor, they

subscribed to a

Sklavmoral and

spiritually humble

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After World War came

prosperity and new morality.

The prosperity was

dispersed through all

classes, the comfortingfeeling was appear.

The religion of America beg

to lose its direction.

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