1998年11月10日,《哥伦比亚美国文学史》主编埃·埃利奥特在中国社会科学院外国文学研究所作了题为“清教文学及美国文化”的专题讲座。与会者有外文所文学评论方面的专家赵一凡、盛宁、钱满素、黄梅、申慧辉等和一些外国文学学者及研究生。埃利奥特精辟地阐述了清教传统对美国文学、文化、历史的深刻影响。他认为,清教传统首先在美国文学史上影响巨大;清教徒怀着虔 On November 10, 1998, Egyptian Elliott, the chief editor of the History of American Literature in Colombia, gave a lecture on “Puritan Literature and American Culture” at the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Attendees were Zhao Yifan, Sheng Ning, Qian Man Su, Huang Mei, Shen Huihui, and other foreign literary scholars and postgraduates in the foreign literature literature reviewers. Elliott brilliantly expounded the profound influence of the Puritan tradition on American literature, culture and history. In his view, the Puritan tradition first of all had a huge impact in the history of American literature; the Puritans were godly