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The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and philosophical fervor in the thirteen American colonies in the 18th ... In the fields of literature, poetry ...
Frank Shuffelton (died March 4, 2010) was an American scholar of American literature, who taught at the University of Rochester from 1969 to his retirement in 2007. His expertise was the American Enlightenment; he published a monograph on Thomas Hooker and bibliographical books on Thomas Jefferson, whose Notes on the State of Virginia he edited.
Thomas Paine's American Ideology. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874132601. —— (1986). The Re-emergence of World Literature: a Study of Asia and the West. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874132779. —— (1993). The Dragon and the Eagle: the Presence of China in the American Enlightenment. Wayne State University Press.
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the ... and philosophical, changes of the 18th century, called the Enlightenment ...
The Age of Enlightenment was a broad philosophical movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The traditional theological-political system that placed Scripture at the center, with religious authorities and monarchies claiming and enforcing their power by divine right, was challenged and overturned in the realm of ideas.
Its literature often features a protagonist which is driven by emotion, impulse and other motives that run counter to the enlightenment rationalism. [32] [33] [34] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Heinrich Leopold Wagner: Weimar Classicism
The Enlightenment culture was based on close readings of new books, and intense discussions that took place daily at such intellectual gathering places in Edinburgh as The Select Society and, later, The Poker Club as well as within Scotland's ancient universities (St Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen). [36]
In literature, the first Enlightenment ideas in Portugal can be traced back to the diplomat, philosopher, and writer António Vieira [137] who spent a considerable amount of his life in colonial Brazil denouncing discriminations against New Christians and the indigenous peoples in Brazil.