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early lit terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Settler Colonialism | settler society invades and replaces the indigenous societies. it is a structure, myth that land is empty and available to use land correctly. |
| Black Legend | the Spanish were uniquely cruel and far more brutal than any other Europeans in their treatment of indigenous populations |
| Calvinism | turns its adherence into readers, it offers no intermediary to know if you're saved, you turn to yourself or nature. No one like priest to listen to. |
| Providence | the signs of God in everyday life and nature, gods willing and controlling of the world Good things happen: God is happy |
| Introspection | scanning ones soul for signs of grace, interpreting the events of one's life to find signs of grace |
| Lyric | A short, non-narrative poem |
| Conversion Narrative | personal accounts detailing the process of an individual's spiritual transformation, often involving a profound change in beliefs or faith. |
| Spiritual Autobiography | narrative of one's life journey toward salvation/conversion. Begins with sinfulness. Turning point is the experience of god's grace (rowlandsons publication) |
| Captivity Narrative | traditionally story of a white person, typically a woman, capture by native American's and the tale of their resistance to and or immersion into the culture. Often though not always, ends with a cultural redemption, coming back to their culture. |
| Jeremiad | god has a "special covenant" with English colonists. When they backslide into sin, both individually and as a community, god will punish them. The jeremiad is a sermon and narrative structure that exhorts |
| Evangelicalism | rejection of Calvinism. Emphasis on emotion, experience, and a rejection of Calvinist theories on election and depravity; capacity of humans for moral good (amid their sins); conversion |
| Deism | rejection of revelation and miracles; reason and observation sufficient to understand God and Providence. |
| Scientific Revolution | This era marked a shift from medieval thinking, which relied heavily on religious doctrine, to empirical observation and experimentation. |
| Empiricism | observation and use of reason to interpret evidence |
| Sympathy | that humans have the capacity for innate morality via sympathy, that is in imagining yourself in someone else's shoes. |
| Consent of the Governed | the principle that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use power is justified only when it derives from the consent of the people it governs |
| Republican Virtue | Self-government, promotion of public good and civic institutions, set aside self interest for public good |
| Republican Motherhood | Raising good sons to have republican virtue. Need for women's education |
| Liberalism | political philosophy based on consent of the governed, liberty over one's self and property, and equality before the law. |
| Agrarian Ideals | Ideal of yeoman farmers (farmers on small landed estates) working their own estates as the basis for the nation Set against the luxuries of cities, banking, and commerce Promoted by Thomas Jefferson (against centralized economic plans of Hamilton) |
| Atlantic Slave Trade | 1.5 millions slaves were kidnapped and transported all across the globe from 1701-1810. Slaves gave labor to plantation, created wealth for European empires who controlled colonies and made colonies rich |
| Social Death | a state in which an individual is no longer recognized or treated as a member of society, often occurring in contexts of severe illness, disability, or after a loss of social connections. |
| Neoclassical Poetry | Dominated poetic style from 1660-1789, most prominent example, Alexander Pope Idealized order, restraint, logic, and decorum Dedicated to symmetry and proportion seen in the use of the heroic couplet: couplets written in iambic pentameter |
| Heroic Couplet | Iambic pentameter lines that rhyme in pairs, Ex: line ends with decay, next like ends in obey. |
| Elegy | A mourning poem or funeral song Lament for the dead, usually someone In particular About being "left behind" and surviving A type of lyric |
| Occasional Poem | A poem written to describe or comment on a particular event and often written for a public |
| Caesura | Poetic pause in the middle via punctuation |
| Enjambment | continuation of poetic line with no punctuation or pause. |
| Novel (history of) | New form of writing emerging at the end of the early modern era The first novels in English appear at the end of the seventeenth century Hybrid genre of other prose narrative forms |
| Epistolary Novel | novel written in form of letters, multiple perspectives and stories, heightens intimacy with characters |
| Seduction Narrative/Novel | A Tale of a womans seduction by a rake, her impregnation (often) and abandonment , eventually ends with her death. This is not a romance. |
| Coverture Law | Married women were considered femes coverts or covered women, they were covered by their husbands for legal purposes. Married women could not own property, sign contracts, or make wills All their property and money they have by law is their husbands. |
| Bartolome De Las Casas | An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Devastation of the Indies |
| John Smith | The General History of Virgina, New England, ang the Summer Isles |
| William Bradford | Of Plymouth Plantation |
| John Winthrop | A Model of Christian Charity |
| Anne Bradstreet | Poems |
| Mary Rowlandson | The Sovereignty and the Goodness of God |
| Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography |
| Hector St. John de Crevecoeur | Letters from an American Farmer |
| Phillis Wheatley | Poems and letters |
| Thomas Jefferson | Notes on the State of Virigina |
| Hannah Foster | The Coquette |
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