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Puritan is a broad term referring to a number of Protestant groups who sought to purify the Church of England which had been closely connected to its government. Small group led by William Bradford came to the New World in 1620.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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The Bible provided a model for Puritan writing each individual life was a journey to salvation. They saw a direct connection between Biblical events (allusions) and their own lives. They used writing to explore the inner and outer lives for signs of the workings of God.

Diaries and histories were the most common types of literature.

They favored a plain style similar to that of the Geneva Bible and stressed clear expressions over complicated figures of speech.
(source: Wikipedia)

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H.L. MENCKEN (1880-1956) was one of the greatest journalist in the history of United States, and one of the most widely quoted critics of American civilization.

Menckens name became an em

the 1920s revolt against Victoria

1920s: He achieved his greatest essayist for American Mercury.

as a newspaper columnist and a

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CALVINISM is the natural theology of the disinherited; it never flourished, therefore, anywhere as it did in the barren hills of Scotland and in the wilds of North America. by Dr. Leon Kellner May be called its narrow technical sense, that is, as a theory of God. The New world as well as in the Old, it became no more than a luxuriant demology, even God himself was transformed into a superior sort of devil, ever wary and wholly merciless.
Dying a much harder death, and we are still a long way from the englightenment.

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Continental influences have measurably corrupted the Puritan idea The prevailing American view of the world and its mysteries is still a purely moral one, and no other human concern gets half the attention that is endlessly lavished upon the problem of conduct, particularly of the other fellow. It needed no announcement of a President of the United States to define the republics destiny as that of an international expert in morals, and the mentor and exemplar of the less righteous nations. He is beyond all things else, a judge and a policeman; he believes firmly that there is a mysterious power in law; he supports and embellishes its operation with a fanatical vigilance.

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A novel or a play is judged among us, not by its dignity of conception, its artistic honesty, its perfection of workmanship, but almost entirely by its orthodoxy of doctrine, its platitudinousness, its usefulness as a moral tract.

Susan Lenox by David Graham Philips

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

The Titan Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

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Men of certain education Austere culture Not so much hostile to beauty

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Contract or covenant exists between God and humanity. Idea of contract between people and government stems from that idea.

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Adept at twisting the ancient gauds and shibboleths of Puritanism the partisan uses Politics and religion coalesced in a manner not seen

All men of any ability can join into the political activity for self experience

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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an antislavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character. He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older at the time of the latter.

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The Civil War brought that era of sterility to an end.

The shock of the civil war completely reorganized the American scheme of things.

The civil war made certain important changes in the national Puritanism.

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Whitman , whose career straddled, to speak and the four years of the war.
He was the leader and for a long while he is the only trooper of a double revolt.
example of his literary works : The Blue and The Gray, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, War and Peace, The Attack on the Mill .

The way of civil war literature is a few convetional melodramas.

example : short stories by Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane, and idiotic popular songs in the manner of Randalls Maryland, My Maryland .

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In the seventies and eights, with the appearance of such men as Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Bret Harte.
example : Mark Twain : The Gilded Age Harte : a brilliant technician Howells and James : show that timorousness and reticence which are the distinguishing marks of the Puritan.

The neo-Puritanism : a frank harking back to the primitive spirit.

The original Puritan of the bleak New England.

The new Puritanism : not ascetic, but militant

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Poverty

poor, they subscribed to a Sklavmoral and spiritually humble

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After World War came prosperity and new morality. The prosperity was dispersed through all classes, the comforting feeling was appear.

The religion of America bega to lose its direction.

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