LectureA Brief Introduction to American Literature1.Basic features of American writersIndependent, Individualistic, Critical, Innovative, Humorous2.Part I The Literature of Colonial and American PuritanismThe first American writer: Capitan John Smith.Philip Freneau:( Father of American Poetry)3.Part II The Literature of Reason and Revolution, EnlightenmentJonathan Edwards: First modern American and the countrys last medieval man Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography Thomas Pa
