1) American Romanticism Flashcards
Duration of American Romanticism
cca 1830s to 1865 (end of the Civil War)
Characteristics of American Romanticism
focus on the individual, emotion over logic, celebration of nature, emphasis on imagination and creativity
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
Which author wrote the genre of historical romance and has his novels set in America’s frontier in the 18th century?
James Fenimore Cooper
Leatherstocking Tales
James Fenimore Cooper
What are the names of the stories in Leatherstocking Tales?
The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer
What is the name of the character which connects Leatherstocking Tales?
Natty Bumpoo
Who was the first American folk hero?
Natty Bumpoo
Who was Catherine Maria Sedgewick?
a novelist
Catherine Maria Sedgewick
Hope Leslie
Hope Leslie
Catherine Maria Sedgewick
Which genre is Hope Leslie?
historical romance
What is the setting of Hope Leslie?
early colonial times, Puritans and Indians, strong female heroins, interracial relationships
Who was Lydia Huntley Sigourney?
a very popular poet, wrote educative books for young ladies, criticised slavery and the destruction of wilderness
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Fallen Forest, Indian Names, To the First Slave Ship
Into which genre does Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) belong?
dark romanticism
E. A. Poe is seen as a predecessor to which subgenre in the 20th century?
Southern Gothic
Name some authors who belong to the Southern Gothic subgenre
Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner
Features of Poe’s fiction
themes of horror, tragedy, the supernatural, insanity vs rationality, obsession, irony, unreliable narrators
Which of Poe’s works was published in magazines?
Short Stories
Which book was Poe’s first publication?
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Which Poe’s short story was the most popular one in his lifetime?
The Gold Bug
Name some of E. A. Poe’s (1809-1849) works
The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Gold Bug, Short Stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Berenice, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle etc.
E. A. Poe is father of which genre?
the detective story genre
Name Poe’s three most famous detective stories
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter
What is the name of the Poe’s detective?
C. Auguste Dupin
What is Poe’s poetry like?
formally perfect poems, mathematically precise rhytmic patterns, regular rythm pattern; The Raven, Anabel Lee
Which of Poe’s work was published posthumously?
The Poetic Principle
In The Tell - Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher, the narrator is __________
unnamed
What are the names of the two siblings in The Fall of the House of Usher?
Roderick and Madeline Usher
What are some of the themes of The Fall of the House of Usher?
themes of madness, decay, the supernatural, sensation of claustrophobia, confusion between the living things and inanimate objects
What is the setting in The Fall of the House of Usher?
we cannot say for sure where in the world or exactly when the story takes place
Themes of The Black Cat
themes of guilt, madness, the consequences of one’s actions, unreliable narrator
What is the symbolism behind the black cat?
the black cat serves as a symbol of the narrator’s guilt
