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2) American Romanticism I Flashcards

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Name the 1820s authors

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Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Lydia Maria Child, Catherine Maria Sedgwick

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Who was the first American author popular in Europe?

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Washington Irving

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What was Washington Irving’s pseudonym?

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Geoffrey Crayon, Diedrich Knickerbocker

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Which author did spend a lot of time in Europe?

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Washington Irving

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Wahington Irving

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Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Which author was influenced by Sir Walter Scott?

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Which genre is the Last of the Mohicans?

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Historical romance

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What are Native Americans characters like in the works of Cooper?

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idealized and romanticized (“noble savage” as Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans) or demonized (primitive beasts as Magua in The Last of the Mohicans)

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Name the five stories in Leatherstocking Tales

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The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer

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Who is the central character in Leatherstocking Tales?

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Natty Bumppo, Leatherstocking, The Pathfinder, Deerslayer, Hawkeye, La Longue Carabine

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Characterize Natty Bumpoo

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pioneer, backwoodsman, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, fur trader, militia man, the first American folk hero

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What was the Oregon Treaty?

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The boundary between the U.S. and Canada along the 49th parallel north

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Why was the Oregon Trail dangerous?

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Because of illnesses, accidents, exhaustion

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What was the frontier?

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The juncture between civilization and wilderness, it is what made America different from Europe

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William Cullen Bryant

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Thanatopsis, The Praries

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16
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James Fenimore Cooper

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Leatherstocking Tales

17
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Catherine Maria Sedgwick

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Hope Leslie

18
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Name two main heroines in Hope Leslie

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Hope Leslie (white, puritan), Magawisca (Pequod)

19
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Lydia Maria Child

20
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Lydia Huntley Sigourney

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Fallen Forest, Indian Names, To the First Slave Ship

21
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What did Lydia Sigourney criticize?

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slavery, mistreatment of Native Americans, destruction of wilderness

22
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Who wrote educative books for young ladies?

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney

23
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Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Wahington Irving

24
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Thanatopsis, The Praries

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William Cullen Bryant

25
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Leatherstocking Tales

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James Fenimore Cooper

26
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Hope Leslie

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Catherine Maria Sedgwick

27
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Hobomok

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Lydia Maria Child

28
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Fallen Forest, Indian Names, To the First Slave Ship

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney

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