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    The U.S.A. History and Literature: from the beginning to the 20th century
    The U.S.A. History and Literature: from the beginning to the 20th century
    The U.S.A. History and Literature: from the beginning to the 20th century
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    The U.S.A. History and Literature: from the beginning to the 20th century

    By Carla Aira and Paolo Calloni

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    It is a brief excursus of the main events occurred i America and the main literary trends from the very beginning to the second half of the 20th century 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarla Aira
    Release dateDec 27, 2020
    ISBN9791220242707
    The U.S.A. History and Literature: from the beginning to the 20th century

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      The U.S.A. History and Literature - Carla Aira

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      The U.S.A.: history and literature

      from the beginning to the 20th century

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      Study Guide

      an approach to American history and authors

      History - 1600

      the settlers

      The first European attempt to exploit North America was when the London Company sent out its expedition to begin colonizing Virginia on December 20, 1606.

      Meanwhile, Basque, English, and French fishing fleets became regular visitors to the coasts from Newfoundland to Cape Cod. Some of these fishing fleets set up camps on the coasts to trade with local Indians, exchanging furs for manufactured goods. For the next two decades, Europeans' presence in North America was limited to these incursions.

      In the 1580s, the English tried to plant a permanent colony on Roanoke Island (on the coast of present-day North Carolina), but their effort did not last.

      In the early 1600s, in rapid succession, the English began a colony (Jamestown) in Chesapeake Bay in 1607, the French built Quebec in 1608, and the Dutch began their interest in the region that is now New York.

      Afterwards, English, French and Dutch trade companies began to send thousands of colonists, including families, to North America. The interest in North America started to mean contest among European powers to exploit these lands.

      The European colonization and settlement of North America was an invasion of territory where Native Americans had been living for centuries. Indian groups perceived the Europeans' arrival as an intrusion and tried to resist that invasion. But they were then defeated and chased both because of European diseases and of superior force of arms.

      The third group of people that must be considered that played an active role in the European invasion is the Africans.

      From the very beginning, Europeans had problems in their attempts to establish colonies because of the lack of labourers to do the hard work of colony-building.

      The process of European colonization of America was a complex one, as the members of these very diverse peoples confronted situations that they had not chosen.

      Literature - 1600

      the origins

      From the beginning America was unique in the diversity of its inhabitants arrived from all parts of the world. However English quickly became the language of America and regional and ethnic dialects enriched its literature.

      When European explorers first came to North America, Native American cultures had rich forms of oral literature passed down from generation to generation. Some of them were translated into English, but most disappeared with the destruction of Native American cultures that followed white settlements of the continent.

      Poetry

      Until the 19th century American poetry took inspiration from works written in British. They were set in a new physical environment and took into account the evolving culture of the colonies.

      The Puritans who settled in New England were the first poets of the American colonies. For most of them poetry is the literary form that allowed pious believers to express divine lessons. Puritan poets grew up in England during a period when Christian epic poetry by John Milton was considered the highest literary achievement and, once in America, they maintained their cultural faithfulness to Britain.

      Anne Bradstreet (1612-72), come to Massachusetts from Britain at the age 18, was the first poet in America to publish a volume of poetry; The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in England in 1650. The poems, even if imitations of British forms and themes, reveal her attraction to the new world, and the problems he met while facing a new life and the wilderness. Further, she showed early ideas of female reaction to women situation ( The Prologue, 1650).

      Edward Taylor (1642-1729), wrote powerful meditative poems inspired by poets George Herbert and John Donne. In God's Determinations Touching His Elect (1680?), he celebrates God's power in the triumph of good over evil in the human soul.

      According to the Puritan tradition, poetry was to be read mainly in family and with closest friends, while public poetry was more didactic or instructive and often involved the transformation into verse of important biblical lessons that guided Puritan belief.

      Other great inspirers for poetry were Alexander Pope and

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