Puritanism & Enligthenment Flashcards

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Puritan literature: characteristics (5), functions (3), main genres (3) and authors (6)

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CHARACTERISTICS
- Anything written is literature
- Content-based
- Allegorical and doctrinal
- Plaine style
- Constant comparisons between Puritans and Biblical figures

FUNCTIONS
- To preserve and spread knowledge
- Record history
- Affirm the community, its practices and ideas

GENRES
- Sermons
- Biographies and autobiographies
- History chronicles

AUTHORS
- John Cotton
- John Winthrop “Journals”
- Jonathan Edwards
- Thomas Shepard “The Sincere Convert”
- William Bradfrod “Historie of the Plimmoth Plantantion”
- Cotton Mather “Magnalia Christi Americana”

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Enlightenment writing

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  • Practical, useful, didactic
  • Topics: contemporary issues (political conflicts)
  • Influenced by British authors such as Pope or Dryden

Authors:
- Thomas Paine “Common Sense”
- Thomas Jefferson
- Benjamin Franklin “Autobiography”

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