Colonial Period Literature

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Colonial Period Literature
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Colonial U.S. at 1775
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Peoples of the Time
Puritans
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Quakers
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Native Americans
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Concepts within Colonial Literature

• AGE OF REASON
• Artist and writers prefer logic instead of
  emotion
• Architects and creators prefer balance and
  symmetry to what we would today consider organic
  shapes and natural forms
• Thinkers rely more on reason and logic
  rather than intuition and the imagination.
• PURITANISM have a disagreement with Catholics
  over authority. Puritans believed in
• The primacy (importance) of personal,
  unmediated faith (no Pope, confessions, selling
  pardons).
• The primacy of the Biblical text.
• Puritan Literature comes from a private need to
  examine the inner life.
• Predestination God chooses at birth those he
  would save. Catholics believed that salvation
  could be earned or gained through good works.
  Puritans rejected the theological view that "good
  works" save one's soul because they believed that
  man was primarily evil and only God could save
  him.

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Portrait of George WashingtonBy Gilbert Stuart
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Oliver and Abigail Wolcott Ellsworthby Ralph Earl
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Hathaway House1760s by Shem Burbank