American Lit Final
Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" 1819
"A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessings; and if so **** was thrice blessed".
Jonathan Edwards
"Heart religion"; involved both the terrors of hell, which he descibes in the sermon "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God"
Washington Irving "The Author's Account of Himself" 1819
"I am of this mind with Homer, that as the snaile that crept out of her shel was turned eftsoones into a toad, and thereby was forced to male a stoole to sit on; so the traveller that stragleth from his owne country is in a short time transformed"
Washington Irving "The Author's Account of Himself" 1819
"I will visit this land of wonders, therefore, thought I, and see the gigantic race from which I am degenerated"
Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" 1819
"Its chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy, which, indeed, was a little questioned, on its first appearance, but has since been completely established"
John Locke
"Our business here on Earth is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct" prompting his followers to consider human actions and motives as worthy objects of study. --Sympathy can unite communities by shared beliefs
Washington Irving
"The Author's Account of Himself" (1819) -use of "I" -Europe is his native country
Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" 1819
"The children of the village too would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites" --Fish all day
Washington Irving "The Author's Account of Himself" 1819
"but he had neglected to paint St. Peter's, or the Coliseum; the cascade of Terni, or the bay of Naples"
John Smith
"for God did make the world to be inhabited with mankind, and to have his name known to all Nations, and from generation to generation"
Washington Irving "The Author's Account of Himself" 1819
"for I had read in the works of various philosophers, that all animals degenerate in America, and man among the number"
Jonathan Edwards
"if the great things of religion are rightly understood, they will affect the heart".
poet Phillis Wheatley
"in every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance"
Abigail Adams
"remember the Ladies"
Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" 1819
"there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple good natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle".
John Locke
"to observe the actual conduct of humanity rather than to debate supernatural matters that are unprovable"
Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" 1819
"yet his errors and follies are remembered "more in sorrow than in anger", and it begins to be suspected, that he never intended to injure or offend". --A lot of people crticised him
Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" 1819
-"he was a great favourite among all the good wives of the village, who, as usual with the amiable sex, took his part in all family squabbles, and never failed...gossippings to lay all the blame on Dame".
Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" 1819
--Hudson Voyage --mountains --Kaatskill mountains --little village of great antiquity --Dutch colonists --Peter Stuyvesant
Deism
-belief in a harmonious universe that could represent the beneficence of God -optimistic view on human nature
John Smith
1607 founding of Jamestown in Virginia; England's first long lived American settlements (European Settlement) Europeans were becoming wealthy because of the Americans who ones possessed the natural resources
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God
1737
In what year was the book "Letters from an American Farmer" by the French-born writer J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
1782
What year was Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving written?
1819
John Winthrop
A Model of Christian Charity (1630); expressed the ideals that he wanted the colonists to embrace, he wrote that the eyes of the world were on them and that they should strive to be an example for all "city upon a hill"
In Rip Van Winkle what does it show?
Although there are obvious superficial differences, not very much has changed, and the things that have changed have not necessarily improved. The sign mentioned about George Washington shows how things can remain the same underneath even as its external appearances have transformed.
What is Rip Van Winkle about?
Based on a German folktale set in a sleepy Dutch village on the Hudson River shortly before the Revolution, the story features Rip, a slacker who embarks on a hunting expedition to evade his wife's demands. He finds Henry Hudson who invite Rip to drink with him and his men where Rip falls into a deep sleep. When he returns to the village after a 20-year interval, the Revolution has passed, and he finds everything unfamiliar. After he shouts if anybody knows him, a version of his younger self is pointed out to him. This person turns out to be the son he left at home 2 decades earlier, now grown to be a man like his father. After the revolution, there is a more democratizing political culture.
Rip Van Winkle
By Washington Irving 1819
Spanish historian Antonio de Herrera
By the mid 16th century the Native population had een dispaced by African slaves that this oerson called the island "an effigy or an image of Ethiopia itself"
who posed the resonant question: "What is an American?"
Crevecoeur; where he described "the American" as a "new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions." The American people were "a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans and Swedes," he wrote, who they framed their own land.
John Smith
English Plantations
In 1782 the book "Letters from an American Farmer" was written by who?
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God
Jonathan Edwards
In 1782 what book was by the French-born writer J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
Letters from an American Farmer
"Christenings make not Christians" by Roger Williams
Meaning that as he interpreted the doctrine of election, rituals and displays meant less than inner faith.
What happened in 1492?
Native people stated to die in large numbers. People got diseases such as smallpox, measles, and typhus spread throughout the Caribbean and then on the mainland of Central and South America. These diseases became even more lethal as a consequence of war, enslavement, brutal mistreatment, and despair.
"Covenant of Works"
Puritans did not consider most people damned before birth but Instead, they argued that Adam broke this; the promise God made to Adam that he was immortal and could live in Paradise forever as long as he obeyed God's commandments--when he disobeyed and ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thereby bringing sin and death into the world.
William Hill Brown
The Power of Sympathy (1789); it tells a tale of incest and suicide.
who wrote the tale "Rip Van Winkle"
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle was written by who?
Washington Irving in 1819
Jonathan Edwards
a leading minister and theologian who helped from this new culture with a series of "awakenings" in and around Nothampton.
How was the Plymouth Plantation in 1620?
a new phase for the colonial North America. After landing on the raw Massachusetts shore in Nov. 1620, the Pilgrims braced for winter. They survived this "starving time" with the aid of the Indians
"Covenant of Grace"
an agreement that Jesus Christ made with all people who believed in him and that he sealed with his Crucifixion, promising them eternal life.
Virginian Thomas Jefferson led a committe
drafted a Declaration of Independence issued on July 4th stating "certain truths are self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness"; for the individual's right to happiness on earth.
Rip Van Winkle
emphasizes continuity more than transformation, and it highlights the checkered quality of human nature rather than its potential for radical new beginnings
Women writers
expressed a revolutionary political sensibility.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
founded in 1630 by Puritans under John Winthrop. These colonists wanted to retain their ties with the Church of England, they shared basic beliefs with the pilgrims: both agreed with Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther that no pope had the right to impose any law on Someone without their consent.
Encomienda system in 1492 (Columbus, slavery, diseases, etc)
gave individual Spaniards claims to Native labor and wealth. Faced with a sudden decline in Native workers.
"Of Plymouth Plantation"
grew a community that exceeded its size and location. The leaders of this are seen as domineering and repressive antagonist of Morton's colony. Morton wanted to convert the Natives to Christianity.
Newton's study of the laws of motion and gravity
had the potential to undermine religious beliefs as it gave a natural order that was independent of divine power.
The puritan theologian Roger Williams
helped guide toward a more capacious understanding of religious freedom. "chritenings make not Christians"
What is the Reconquista?
it was just one phase of the centuries-long wars between Christian and Muslim empires that shaped European perceptions of, and actions in, the America. The year of the columbus's first voyage was also the year of this which was in 1492.
John Locke's Theory
of the human mind as a tabula rasa, or blank slate, endowed with powers of perception but without innate content, posed a direct challenge to established forms of Christianity calling to question the idea of sin.
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God
parishioners had to experience religion viscerally/instinctivelly (based on feelings), not just comprehend it intellectually; Enlightenment Science
John Smith
provided guidance for both the Pilgrims who established Plymouth in 1620 and the Puritans who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony 10 years later.
William Bradforth
refers to the Pilgrims in "Of Plymouth Plantation" in 1630
John Smith
saw God's hand at work in Englands seizing of the Americas; land, soil, population in England
Isaac Newton and John Locke The english leading scientist and philosopher
sought to resolve implicit conflicts between their work and Christian tradition.
Salem Which Trials
tied to dramatic social and economic changes during the late colonial period. in 18th century
1776, Common Sense by Thomas Paine
tipped the scale to revolution; argued that the separation from England was the colonists reasonable course and that "Almighty" had planted these feelings in us "for good and wise purposes"
Why did Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams?
to give women equality and rights; John fail to do what Abigail wanted.
