1. The document discusses early American literature from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the mid-1700s. 2. It describes the Puritan experiment in Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of John Winthrop, including their religious beliefs in predestination and rejecting the authority of popes and bishops. 3. As the colonies expanded, the population grew more diverse with English, Dutch, German, French Protestants and Jewish merchants settling in cities like Philadelphia, which became the unofficial capital and second largest city of commerce after London by 1750.

1. UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLOGICA DE EL
SALVADOR.
SUBJECT.
LITERATURE
NAMES:
Elizabeth Moran
Mirna Jerusalen Funes
Loida Mabel Nuñez

2. EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE
In 1607 John Smith
was established
Jamestown.
Account of the New
World.
Captain John Smith,
Description of New
England (1616).

3. 1607 Rumour about the paradise.
Thomas Jeffeson has been writen in the
State of Virginia 1785-1787.

4. THE PURITAN EXPERIMENT PLYMOUTH
PLANTATION
Pilgrims thoutht of themselve as soldier in a
war against Satan.
Pilgrims in Holland→England (1620)---
Virginia Plantation
↘Plymouth→Massachusetts Bay Colony
(1691)

5. THE PURITAN EXPERIMENT: THE
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY
Leadership of John Winthrop.
Religious believes:
1. Martin Luther: no pop or bishop had a right to
impose any law on a Christian soul without consent

6. 2. John Calvin: God chose freely those He would
save and those He would damn eternally
--Puritan letters, diaries, histories, and poetry .
1. attest to faith, a “noble design,” to make daily
life bearable.

7. PURITAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Writing of history in high regard: progression
toward the fulfillment of God’s design on earth .
Self-consciousness: God’s hand present in every
human event, rewarded good and punished bad.
Cotton Mather, Magnalia
Christi Americana (1702)

8. AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE
Population.
Community of helping souls.
Diversity: English, Dutch, German, French
Protestants, Jewish merchants.
Philadelphia (1750), unofficial capital, second
only to London as a city of commerce