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Literatura Norteamericana IAmerican Literature I
Ricardo Menéndez
10 ECTS Credits 2015-2016
Authors & Contents 1st TermStudy Block I
Early American Literature
Captain John Smith – Oct 7th
William Bradford – Oct 14th
Anne Bradstreet – Oct 21st
Mary Rowlandson – Oct 28th
The American Enlightment
Jonathan Edwards – Nov 4th
Benjamin Franklin – Nov 11th
Olaudah Equiano – Nov 18th
Phillis Wheatley – Nov 25th
Romanticism (part I)
Washington Irving – Dec 2nd
James Fenimore Cooper – Dec 9th
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Dec 16th
Henry David Thoroeau – Jan 13th
Review past exams – Jan 20th
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Heaven & earth never agreed better
to frame a place for man’s
habitation; were it fully manured
and inhabited by industrious people.
Biography
On his literary Works and more
Online resources
Q&A
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Captain John Smith (1580-1631)
Objectives of the Unit Realize how unfamiliar environment of the New World provided the English
explorers and settlers with a great diversity of experiences which demanded a variety of discourses and originated a wide range of literary variations
Learn how the adventurer and explorer Captain John Smith expressinghimself in the travel-writing tradition, chronicled the early days of the English colonization of America and tried to entice his fellow countrymen to leavetheir homeland and settle in the New World
See how colonial policy was justified through the concept of “manifestdestiny”: the notion that America made manifest the predestined expansión of European civilization – Europeans had the ‘right’ to possess America
Consider how the Native peoples of North America began to be portrayed byEnglish Explorers and discover the myth of Pocahontas
Examine how Captain Smith’s rhetorical process of self-fashioning and self-representation illustrates issues of reliability (a mattter of concern in manyautobiographical texts)
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Unit 1 – Captain John Smith
Biography Born in the English town of Willoughby in the Lincolnshire
First English work written in America: A True Relation of Such Occurences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia. Written in 1608, published in London in the same year
Captain Smith can be correctly described as a true pioneering adventurer and explorer
Author of relevant depictions of Virginia and Powhatan Indians
Very important illustrations of Indian settlings
Mapmaker: Map of Virginia (1612) and Map of New England drawn during a second expedition to the Maine and Massachusetts Bay Area used by Prince Charles to put English names on the map
John Smith arrived at Jamestown in 1607
Governor of Virginia 1608-1609
Never returned to Virginia after leaving
Facts for which he is famous probably never happened
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Unit 1 – Captain John Smith
Literary Works (and more)
Excerpt covered in the unit:
From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
Books III, Passages from Chapter 2
Author of the FIRST ENGLISH WORK WRITTEN IN AMERICA:
A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath
Happened in Virginia (June, 1608)
General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624)
The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith, in
Europe, Asia, Africa and America (1630)
Map of Virginia (1612) & Map of New England
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Unit 1 – Captain John Smith
Online Resources and Interesting Facts
Definitely Disney does idealize characters
The huge mix of fact and fiction is not (entirely) Disney’s fault however
Librivox , Guttenberg, and other resources
http://www.americanjourneys.org/pdf/AJ-082.pdf
https://librivox.org/a-description-of-new-england-by-captain-john-smith/
https://prezi.com/mgdbudsb5pj5/the-general-history-of-virginia/
http://literature.proquest.com.ezproxy.uned.es/searchFullrec.do?id=6988&area=authors&forward=author&DurUrl=Yes
Pocahontas Revealed (PBS Nova Documentary):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pocahontas/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wFFyC8lj7U
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Unit 1 – Captain John Smith
Online Resources and Interesting Facts
The famous 1956 Grammy award winning song Fever performed by Peggy Lee
has a stanza that talks about Pocahontas and John Smith
Captain Smith and Pocahontas
Had a very mad affair
When her daddy tried to kill him
She said "daddy oh don't you dare"
"He gives me fever with his kisses"
"Fever when he holds me tight"
"Fever, I'm his misses"
"Daddy won't you treat him right?"
The more popular, and far from accurate, versions of the story of John Smith
and Pocahontas stem from an E. Boyd Smith story for children, profuse in
fictional details and a storyboard-like layout: The Story of Pocahontas and
John Smith
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24487/24487-h/24487-h.htm
http://ia802501.us.archive.org/28/items/selectedworksofeboydsmith_1404_librivox/selecte
dworks_02_smith_64kb.mp3
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Unit 1 – Captain John Smith
Questions?Thank you
Unit 1 – Captain John Smith
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Self Evaluation &
Exploratory Questions
from the Book
Online Self Evaluation Quiz
