The Importance of American Literature

The Importance of American Literature

Introduction

Literature is important aspect of any society that depends on the type of person. In an overview could say that if a person has relevance to personal development as this is an essential means of expression that serves as relief for countless people. Besides being able to read and observe, the literature helps writers' comprehensive training, just as part of who you are and you adopt attitudes and positions of what you learn from this medium. Thus, the importance of culture is very significant and the following essay is analyzing the importance of American Literature.

Discussions

American Literature

The American literature includes the literary production of the United States and the British colonies, from which they emerged. Since the 19th Century, it is as independent and from the English literature various national literature and understood as such is the science concerned with academic discipline and American.

Additionally, it also includes authors who produced most of their work in the United States. It may be located in the English literature, but it can also be an object of study in its own right. American literature covers the North American literature, literature of the United States as written in the U.S. and the former colonies. These have been widely developed and the original value of the second half of XIX century, previous history of it comes down mainly to theological works and hymns, and, later, to the historical and political writings.

History of American Literature

In the XVII century, the colonization of this area comes from Europe. It went on and XVIII, and XIX centuries. In the XVII century, there was state called New England, and subordinate to the English king and parliament. And only in the 70s of the XVIII century 13 states gathered the strength to force Britain to recognize their independence.

Fiction in the strict sense and in that capacity, which allows it to enter into the history of world literature, begins in America only in the XIX century, when the literary arena, there are such writers as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper etc.

During the first settlers in the XVII century, when just beginning development of new lands, the base of the first settlements - was not yet the literature. Only a few settlers kept diaries, records, chronicles. While the soul of the author was still living England, its political and religious problems. A special literary interest they represent, and more valuable as a living picture of the first settlers of America, a story about the difficult days of habitation of new places, severe trials, etc. Here are a few famous diaries: Jenna Winthrop for the 1630-1649 years. "History of New England," William Bradford "History of the settlement at Plymouth" (1630-1651), John Smith's "General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles" (1624) .

From a purely literary works should probably mention the poetry of Anne Bradstreet poet (1612-1672), religious and edifying, very mediocre, but the heart of the first settlers (Poems, dialogues, "Quartets") ...