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World Literature AMERICAN, MEXICAN, JAPANESE, FRENCH LITERATURE

American literature The term \"American literature\" When did the first works of refers to literature published or American literature appear? ... produced mostly in English in the American literature began in the United States of America and its early 17th century with the arrival predecessor colonies. ... As a of English-speaking Europeans in result, the American literary what would become the United tradition is a component of the States as a distinct field viewed larger English-language literary through the prism of European legacy. Other immigrant literature.v languages have a tiny body of literature. Transcendentalism, which arose from romanticism later in the 1800s, was possibly the first prominent American intellectual movement, based on the conviction in people's inherent goodness and the concept that self-reliance, free of society's corrupting influence, unlocks that goodness.

The 17th century John Smith's A True Relation of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (160 8) is credited with initiating American literature. John Winthrop's Journal (1630–49) told sympathetically of Massachusetts Bay Colony's attempt to form a theocracy. Increase Mather and his son Cotton defended the theocratic ideal. 17th-century American writings were in the manner of British writings of the same period. John Smith wrote in the tradition of geographic literature, Bradford echoed the cadences of the King James Bible. The Mathers and Roger Williams wrote bejeweled prose typical of the day.

The 18th century In America in the early years of the 18th century, some writers carried on the older traditions. Jonathan Edwards eloquently defended his burning belief in Calvinistic doctrine. Samuel Sewall heralded other changes in his amusing Diary. William Byrd was as playful as the Restoration wits whose works he admired. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine were two of the most influential writers of the American colonies. Franklin championed the cause of the \"Leather Apron\" man and the farmer. Paine's pamphlet Common Sense (January 1776) did much to influence the colonists to declare independence.