American context 20s-40s Flashcards
The lost generation
1914 onwards
A generation in which aged and grew up during WW1 and became disorientated
The gilded age
1870-1900s
A period of great economic boom and industrialisation
Realism
1820-1920
A period in which literature and art presented the purest form of accounts
When did Naturalism begin?
1870-1920
A style based on accurate depiction of detail
When was the Civil war
1861-65
When was WW1?
1914-1918
The wall street crash?
1929
When was Gatsby written?
1925
When was The grapes of Wrath written?
1939
When was the sun also rises written?
1925
When was native son written?
1940
When was the Harlem renaissance?
1918-37
Individualism
1840-1920s
A moral stance used to emphasise the importance of one as an individual
Muckraking definition?- Literary context
authors who searched for/exposed real of alleged corruption
The progressive era
1890-1920
An era that aimed to readdress inequalities of the gilded age applying thought and philosophy to a series of reforms
The Jazz age
1920s and 1930s
racial sexual and social boundaries were challenged
Experimentalists - Literary context
Much of art and literature happened overseas- much of literature was a response to European surrealism
Surrealism - literary context
A concept that prevailed throughout literature in the 1920s that sought to release the unbridled imagination
The Southern Gothic - Literary movement
A sub-genre of gothic literature profoundly concerned with the nature of good and evil and other universal moral dilemmas
Conspicuous consumption- literary term
A term which defines those who feel the need to display all means of wealth
‘stream of consciousness’- literary device
commonly used in American literature- a narrative device used to present a stream of thoughts
Impressionism - art and literary device
19th century
Artists who sought to record daily life through the effects of light and colour
The populist party or populism
a socialist movement to empower the voice of the people
When was the populist party established
1891
When did America declare independence
1776
When did Henry Ford found Ford cards?
1903
When was My Antonià written?
1918
When was the racial apartheid in America?
1877-1950s
Began when Jim Crows racial segregation laws were in place and ended when the civil rights movement began
Modernism was a response to what?
The wake of the industrial evolution and economic boom of the twenties
Ezra pounds statement “make it new!” initiated the …..
modernist literary and arts movement
A very common theme of naturalism was an examination of the philosophical side and how insignificant one
a person can be in his society
