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“Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella” |
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| A Description of New England |
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| "A Model of Christian Charity" |
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"The Author to Her Book"
"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
"Here Follows Some Versus" |
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| A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration |
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| The Wonders of the Invisible World |
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The Autobiography
Notes on the State of Virginia |
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"On Being Brought from Africa to America"
"To His Excellency General Washington"
"To the Right Honorable William" |
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| J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur |
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| Letters from an American Farmer |
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| The Interesting Narrative |
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| A Description of New England |
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by John Smith
Over exaggerates the concept of living in the Americas.
Inheritance or lack of
A place of freedom
"For, I am not so simple, to think, that ever any other motive than wealth, will ever erect there a Commonwealth; or draw company from their ease and humors at home, to stay in New England to effect my purposes. " |
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William Bradford
Addresses God's Exceptional Concern for the colonists
Writes in the Plaine Style
"And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. there was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seamen, of lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their sickness, and cursing them daily with grievous execrations, and did not let to tell them, that he hoped to help to cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end, and to make merry with what they had..." |
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By John Winthrop
Covenant Theology--voluntary agreement sanctified by God; indiv. freely surrendered autonomy in exchange for something of greater value.
Massachusettes Bay Colony in 1630, doesn't mind the english gov't
American Exceptionalism
"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from up, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God..." |
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Anne Bradstreet
"At thy return my blushing was not small,/ My rambling brat (in print) should mother call,/ I cast thee by as one unfit for light,/ Thy visage was so irksome in my sight;/ Yet being mine own, at length affection would/ Thy blemishes amend, if so I could:/ I washed thy face, bot more defects I saw, / And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw." |
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| "To My Dear and Loving Husband" |
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Anne Bradstreet
Weaned affections--"The doctrine of weaned affections held that a saint might work vigorously at his business...and yet 'live above the world' somehow keeping his heart disentangled and his mind in Heaven"
"If ever two were one, then surely we./ If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;/ If ever wife was happy in man,/ Compare with me, ye women, if you can./ I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold/ Or all the riches that the East doth hold." |
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| "Here Follows Some Verses" |
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Anne Bradstreet
"Let no man know is my desire./ I, starting up, the light did spy,/ And to my God my heart did cry/ To strengthen me in my distress/ And not to leave me succorless./ Then, coming out, beheld space/ The flame consume my dwelling place./ And when I could no longer look,/ I blest His name that gave and took,/ That laid my goods now in the dust." |
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| A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration |
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Mary Rowlandson
uses emotional reseve throughout the story uses a lot of allusions to the bible, excluding the quotes.
"I shall particularly speak of the several removes we had up and down the widerness." (refers to the story of Job)
The Jeremiad: A Foundational American Form
European--A lament over the ways of the world
American: "God's punishments were corrective, not distructive...His vengeance was a sign of love"
Story: "Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me and upheld me..." |
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Thomas Paine
Enlightenment period
Nature in Common Sense--"Now is the seed time of continental union, faith, and honor. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters." |
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Benjamin Franklin
"We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal; That they are endowed by their Creator with ingerent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." |
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| Notes on the State of Virginia |
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Jefferson
"Are not the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race?" |
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| "On Being Brought from Africa to America" |
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Phillis Wheatley
"Some view our sable race with scornful eye./ "Their color is a diabolic dye." |
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| "To His Excellency General Washington" |
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Phillis Wheatley
"The goddess comes, she moves divinely fair,/ Olive and laurel binds her golden hair:/ Wherever shines this native of the skies, unnumbered charms and recent graces rise." |
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| "To the Right Honorable William" |
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Phillis Wheatley
"No more, America, in mournful strain/ Of wrongs, and grievance unredressed complain,/ No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain,/ Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand/ Had made, and with it meant t'enslave the land." |
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| Letters from an American Farmer |
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| "We are a people of cultivators, scattered over an o,,emse territory, communicating with each other by means of good roads and navigable rivers, united by the silken bands of mild government, all respecting the laws, without dreading their power, because they are equitable. We are all animated witht he spirit of an industry which is unfettered and unrestrained, because each person works for himself." |
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| The Interesting Narrative |
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| Orature/repertoire/oblivion |
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| the investigation or attribution to the cause or reason for something, often expressed in terms of historical or mythical explanation |
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| the action of taking something for ones own use |
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| a voluntary agreement, sanctified by God, where the individuals freely surrendered autonomy in exchange for something of greater value. |
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| a lament over the ways of the world. God's punishments were corrective, not destructive. A sign of love. |
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| the most heterogeneous ideas yoked together by violence; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and illusions |
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| the period during the 1730s and 1740s of heigtened religious excitement |
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| The nation is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of thier fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them. |
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