American Literature Engl 4370 Compiled by: Dr. Akram Habeeb Second Semester 2013 Acknowledgment I would like to give my special thanks and gratitude to Mr. Sameh AbuWarda for his tremendous efforts in organizing and designing the compiled martial. 1 Table of Contents Acknowledgment ........................................................................................................................ 1 Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................... 2 Course Outline ........................................................................................................................... 6 Course Description................................................................................................................... 6 Course Objectives .................................................................................................................... 6 Expected Output....................................................................................................................... 6 Course Topics .......................................................................................................................... 7 Methods of Teaching ............................................................................................................... 8 Teaching Aids .......................................................................................................................... 8 Assessment ............................................................................................................................... 8 Books ....................................................................................................................................... 8 References: ............................................................................................................................... 8 American Literature/Colonial Period (1620s-1776) ............................................................... 9 Historical Overview of The Period .......................................................................................... 9 Relation to English Literature .................................................................................................. 9 The Virginia Colony .............................................................................................................. 10 The Puritans Colonize New England ..................................................................................... 11 Elizabethan Traits .................................................................................................................. 12 Captain John Smith (1579-1631) ........................................................................................... 13 William Strachey (1572-1621) .............................................................................................. 16 Poetry In The Virginia Colony .............................................................................................. 18 Descriptions Of Virginia ........................................................................................................ 18 Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) ...................................................................................... 26 Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) .................................................................................................. 28 The Prologue .......................................................................................................................... 29 Nathaniel Ward (C.1578-1652) ............................................................................................... 31 Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) ...................................................................................................... 32 Cotton Mather (1663-1728) ..................................................................................................... 34 Life And Personality .............................................................................................................. 34 The Magnalia ......................................................................................................................... 34 Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) .............................................................................................. 37 Life And Writings .................................................................................................................. 37 English Literature of The Period............................................................................................ 39 Leading Historical Facts ........................................................................................................ 39 Summary ................................................................................................................................ 41 References for Further Study ................................................................................................. 42 Suggested Readings ............................................................................................................... 43 Questions and Suggestions .................................................................................................... 44 Edward Taylor ......................................................................................................................... 46 From Edward Taylor's Writings ............................................................................................ 47 Upon a Spider Catching a Fly ............................................................................................... 47 I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51 ............................................................. 49 Huswifery ............................................................................................................................... 50 Mary Rowlandson ................................................................................................................... 51 Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson ............................. 52 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 52 The First Remove ................................................................................................................... 54 The Second Remove .............................................................................................................. 54 2 The Third Remove ................................................................................................................. 55 The Fourth 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........................................................................................................ 70 The Twentieth Remove .......................................................................................................... 73 Ralph Waldo Emerson ............................................................................................................ 81 Early life, family, and education ............................................................................................ 81 Early career ............................................................................................................................ 82 Literary career and Transcendentalism .................................................................................. 84 Civil War years ...................................................................................................................... 87 Final years and death 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