american renaissance short story test

Question 1

washington irving

Answer 1

first american to earn international reputation in literature by sir walter scott et al.
from upstate ny

Question 2

american renaissance dates

Answer 2

1830s-1850s (antebellum era)

Question 3

moby dick, benito cereno

Answer 3

herman melville

Question 4

the house of the seven gables, the blithedale romance, twice told tales

Answer 4

nathaniel hawthorne

Question 5

“nature,” “self-reliance,” “the oversoul”

Answer 5

ralph waldo emerson

Question 6

incidents in the life of a slave girl

Answer 6

harriet jacobs

Question 7

narrative…, my bondage and my freedom

Answer 7

frederick douglass

Question 8

walden, “resistance to civil government”

Answer 8

henry david thoreau

Question 9

leaves of grass

Answer 9

walt whitman

Question 10

the great lawsuit

Answer 10

margaret fuller

Question 11

romanticism

Answer 11

revolt against scientific rationalism and industrial revolution, emphasized the sublime in nature and the individual, romantics skeptical of industry and working all the time, tends toward overstatement and exaggeration

Question 12

transcendentalism

Answer 12

emerson, thoreau, fuller; emphasize the individual and their experiences with nature; everyone has their own soul and theres a spiritual dimension; rejected individuals being inherently corrupt, evil, or lazy; embraced putting themselves on the path to nirvana

Question 13

the over-soul

Answer 13

emerson’s term for universal supreme being type shi, over soul is nebulous in its relationship to individual soul, soul transcends the physical world

Question 14

intersubjectivity

Answer 14

mid 19th century, importance of process and change, the deep intermixing of two consciousnesses in a way that changes one or the both of them

Question 15

legend of sleepy hollow

Answer 15

irving, talks about the threat the industrial revolution (ichabod) poses to the slow-moving dutch life of the van tassels, ichabod dreams of using up all the resources of the farm, eats but is never full, van tassels eat and are satisfied, they have enough, brom bones is the protector of katrina/the van tassels/the slow-moving dutch life

Question 16

rvw

Answer 16

irving, rvw is very lazy, doesnt want to work; he meets dutch people in the mountains (hendrick hudson) and falls asleep for 20 years; learns that his wife died while arguing with a new england salesman, shows how caring to much is bad aka leads to death and we should all be as lazy as rvw

Question 17

the purloined letter

Answer 17

poe, intersubjectivity of the detective and the minister, when trying to to find the letter the detective has to think like the minister and he ends up acting like him in the end, leaves a fake letter as a replica and writes something clever in it instead of leaving it blank, shows how he took on the traits of the minister and became a bitch

Question 18

the fall of the house of usher

Answer 18

poe, intersubjectivity, the owners of the house die and then the house dies and thats it idk

Question 19

the minister’s black veil

Answer 19

hawthorne, no face to face connections leads to bad things happening idk

Question 20

the birth mark

Answer 20

hawthorne, strive for perfection and how it ultimately does more harm than good, wife’s birthmark is connected to her humanity, story shows enlightenment rationality and science vs romantic era feelings

Question 21

bartleby the scivener

Answer 21

melville, during time period nyc is industrializing, more people are turning to work for connections, bartleby lives only off his work and has no human connections, dies, melville says living like this and working a 9-5 office job will kill you inside