Write a literary analysis essay. Analyzing author’s work written during that period. 3-5 critical sources, preferably
from literary journals. Papers must be written using MLA format. Recommended databases include Humanities Databases and
Literature Databases. For common knowledge research, use Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Essay 1 Bradford Question 1
The Pilgrims of Plymouth and the Puritans of Boston Bay have been described as a contentious people who relished strife
and confrontation and revealed their self-righteousness in the way they tallied and savored triumphs over lesser people.
Point out how such confrontations and triumphs–great or small–helped to verify the Pilgrims’ beliefs that their faith
was true and that they were God’s chosen people.
Essay 2 Bradford Question 2
Discuss Bradford’s history as an early statement of the popular idea that Americans are a race set apart, a people
different from and superior to their Old World forbears, a nation whose creation was divinely ordained.
Essay 3 Bradstreet Question
In her nature images and in her perceptions of God through nature, Anne Bradstreet anticipated the romantics and the
Transcendentalists of the 19th century in America. Show how, in “Contemplations” for example, the movement from thoughts
of nature to recognition of divinity anticipates similar movements in such romantic verse as Bryant’s “To a Waterfowl”
and Emerson’s “The Rhodora” (See: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/poems/rhodora.html ).
Essay 4 Edwards Question 1
Divine light, a common figure of speech in Christian writing, was Edwards’s favorite theological metaphor. With metaphors
of light and the sun, Edwards described his awareness of the majesty and glories of God. Discuss light and the source of
light as recurrent figures in “Sarah Pierpont,” “Personal Narrative,” and “A Divine and Supernatural Light.”
Essay 5 Edwards Question 2
Discuss the assertions that:
a. the mystical and pantheistic elements in Edwards’s writing foreshadowed the development of American transcendentalism
b. Edwards was a Neoplatonist who, like the transcendentalists,
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