清教主义对美国精神及美国文学产生的影响

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1、TheInfluenceofPuritanVirtuesupontheAmericanMind--ACaseStudyonBenjaminFranklin’sAutobiography（tobecompleted）(informationaboutauthor,supervisor)AbstractItisgenerallyacknowledgedPuritanismisoneofthemostsignificantshapinginfluencesinAmericanmindandAmericanliterature.It

2、hasformed,tosomeextent,astateofmindandanationalculturalatmospherewhichtheAmericanlivein.ratherthanakindofreligion.WecouldsaywithoutsomeunderstandingofPuritanism,onecanneverunderstandtheAmericaanditsliteraturedeeply.Thispaperaimstostudytheinfluenceofpuritanvirtueson

3、theAmericanmindwithBenjaminFranklin’sAutobiographyasacasestudy.ItmainlyanalyzeshowthePuritanisminfluencedtheAmericanmindsuchasAmericanpeople’spoliticalview,pioneeringspirit,workingethicandtheirfortunevalue.AsanationalheroandmouldoftheAmericanpeoplefromgenerationtog

4、eneration,wecouldsayFranklin’sAutobiographyisnotonlyaliteraryworkbutalsoareflectionoftheAmericanmind.AlthoughlivinginthetimewhenEnlightenmentisprevailing,wecouldstillfindthestrongpuritanhintonFranklinhimself.AndthispuritaninfluencehaslastedformanycenturiesontheAmer

5、icanpeopleevenintoday.ThispaperisdividedintofourpartsandismainlytostudyhowdothepuritanicaldoctrinesandmethodinfluenttheAmericanpeople’scharacterswithBenjaminFranklin’sAutobiographyasacasestudy.Thefirstpartismainlyfocusedonthebackgroundintroduction,andthesecondonema

6、inlydealswiththeformingofAmerican’spuritanvirtueswithFranklin’sAutobiographyasatextstudy.ThethirdandtheforthpartsmainlystudytheembodimentofthesepuritanvirtuesinFranklin’slifeandtheAmericanmindaswell.ByusinganationalidoltostudytheAmericanmindfromtheperspectiveof56Pu

7、ritanismisaworkabletask.Itnotonlyavoidsthedullnessofreligiousstudybutalsoputthereligiousstudyintothereallife.However,foritisanAutobiographyofasingleperson,somepuritanvirtuesdonotappearinthisbook,sowecouldonlystudysomepuritanvirtuesinthispaper.Keywords:Americanmind,

8、Puritanism,BenjaminFranklin,Autobiography56（以下中文摘要同以上英文摘要在内容上要大体对应）摘要我们都知道清教主义对美国精神及美国文学产生了极其深远的影响。从某种程度来讲，清教主义已经成为了一种思维模式，一种民族的文化，而不仅仅是一门宗教。因此，我