Enlightenment period in American literature

Enlightenment period in American literature

Enlightenment period in American literature
Done by Abdumalikova Barchinoy and Ismonaliyeva Gulyora Group 20.111
The American Enlightenment was a philosophical movement from the early 1700s to the 1810s during which the American colonies began to reject many of the Puritan ideals, of which much of the culture had been based upon until that time.
1. What is Enlightenment in American literature
2. Enlightenment age Thinking
Although distinctive features arose in the eighteenth-century American context, much of the American Enlightenment was continuous with parallel experiences in British and French society. Four themes recur in both European and American Enlightenment texts: modernization, skepticism, reason and liberty.
Modernization means that beliefs and institutions based on absolute moral, religious and political authority
What is modernization?
Scepticism – ia a sceptical attitude; doubt as to the truth of something.
Reason that is universally shared and definitive of the human nature also became a dominant theme in Enlightenment thinkers’ writings,
The fourth theme, liberty and rights assumed a central place in theories of political association, specifically as limits state authority originating prior to the advent of states
Which writers and thinkers of American Enlightenment period do you know?
America had its own figures of the Enlightenment to be sure, most prominently among them being Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, to name a few. Many American historians, however, have found the origins of the American Enlightenment in the thinking of Roger Williams.
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
Already mentioned as the first professional American writer, Charles Brockden Brown was inspired by the English writers Mrs. Radcliffe and English William Godwin.Driven by poverty, Brown hastily penned four haunting novels in two years: Wieland (1798), Arthur Mervyn (1799), Ormond (1799), and Edgar Huntley (1799).
Do you know Franklin?
Do you have Franklin? 😊
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his studies of electricity.
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