English Literature (Classic and Modern)
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In a minimum of 2-3 double-spaced pages, please discuss the following in essay format. 1) Discuss the major concepts/themes of the Literature of Early American time period. As you discuss the concepts/themes, refer to specific writings, such as those of Bradford, Morton, Winthrop, Edwards, Bradstreet, etc; and 2) finally, discuss how different and/or similar the female concerns (preoccupations) were from the male concerns (preoccupations) of that time period as evidenced in the writings.
PLEASE USE ONLY THE QUOTES FROM THE STORIES BELOW!!
The Literature of Early America 1-13
William Bradford
Of Plymouth Plantation
Chapter I 81-82
Chapter 9 87-90
Chapter 10 90-92
Thomas Morton
From The New England Canaan 104-113
Week 2 – June 17-21
John Winthrop
From The Journal of John Winthrop 115-125
The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson… 29-33
Anne Bradstreet
“The Prologue” 154-155
“Before the Birth” 165-166
“In Reference to Her Children” 167-169
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” 166
Cotton Mather
The Wonders of the Invisible World 200-211
Mary Rowlandson
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration 235-252
Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 319-330
Week 3 – June 24-28
The Literature of the Eighteenth Century 331-340
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography 377-410
Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason 508-515
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence 518-521
Phillis Wheatley
“On Virtue” 604
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” 605
Olaudah Equiano
From The Life of Olaudah Equiano 482-498
Judith Sargent Murray
On the Equality of the Sexes 642-649