The attitude of the puritans to literature in the nineteenth century
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Since the Puritans were a cast-off sect of Christianity, they often held common feelings of inferiority. Because of these beliefs, their literature tended towards the overtly religious and biographical.
The 19th centuryin particular was a time of great innovation. The novel had become the major art form in literature, and since many popular authors were quite risque for the time, the Puritan response was generally negative. Puritan communities often considered the fictional story vulgar...
During the early 1600s, a new faith emerged in England called the Puritan religious faith. They believed in the idea that in order to purify the religion of the state they had to lessen the influence of the Catholic religious faith.
Puritans were fine with everything as long as it was related to the Bible. Their opinion about literature was related to the faith can be useful in the sense that they help humans to choose the right path to lead their lives. Thus, they strictly prohibited novel reading, even poetry had strict rules.