1. Historical Background of
early American Literature
1-1. Beginning of American Literature
Brief and True Report of the
New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
England’s Colonial Policy
“Send immigrants and help them settle down”
Settlers’ Purpose
Reformation
16th Century in Europe
Reproach Catholic Church, the practice of selling indulge
He was an Irishman, born probably on November 10, 1728, at Pallas, in the County of Longford,
the son of a clergyman in the ChurchofEngland. Goldsmith grew up in genteel poverty in rural isolation
in a society in which the barriers of class were as firm as the Great Wall of China; in which riches and poverty,
benevolence or tyranny, seemed as wayward as the winds of heaven.
England in the early to middle 19th century. It is sometimes called American transcendentalism to distinguish it from other uses of the word transcendental. Transcendentalism began as a protest against the general state of culture and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School. Among transcendental
of mistresses’ sons, were the most important mechanisms that enabled the Chosun dynasty to last for 500 years under the rule of a single family. Compared to England, where king Henry the 8th could not have a son with his first wife, asked for Vatican’s permission to marry one of his mistresses, and founded the churchofEngland that split from Vatican, after his request was denied, the less s
ⅠCharacteristics of the Italian Renaissance
Before the Renaissance
Black death
most devastating pandemic peaking in Europe
between 1348-1350
killing 75 million- 200million
-Spread of the Black death
-Political disorder
-Economic recession
So called “calamitous 14th century”
Renaissance
Renaissance?
meaning REBIRTH
a cultural movement of 14th