Ch.8 Flashcards
The event that marked the end of the literary period characterized by the emergence of what 2 things in the beginning of WWI
Realism and naturalism
What years did realism and naturalism appear?
1865-1914
What were the 2 major forces of change following the civil war period?
Rapid industrialization and Darwin’s theory
What were the results of the rapid growth of industrialization following the civil war
Growth of labor unions, new towns, and assumption of leadership by American businessmen
Why did cities grow?
Immigration southern black Americans, and discouraged farmers
Where did higher criticism originate?
German seminaries and universities
Who were the 2 evangelists who had an impact on the revival movement
Dwight L. Moody, and hilly Sunday
What were the fundamentals of the periods professed to believe
The inerrancy of scripture The virgin birth of Christ The substitutionary death of Christ Christ's physical resurrection Christ's miracles-working power
What were the 3 major groups of writers in this era
Regionalists realists and naturalists
Who are the “masters of realism” ?
Howells,James, and Clemens
What did Howells writing embody?
Middle class spirit
What did James writing embody?
The cosmopolitan or international spirit
What did Clemens writing embody?
The frontier spirit
What group of realists that were more romantic than realistic?
The local Colorists
What did naturalists portray man as?
Man more as a beast than a man
How are naturalist best described as?
That life was controlled by inexplicable forces
What was the prevailing spirit at the end of literary period of realism and naturalism?
Was one of pessimism
What publication made Brent Harte fame?
The luck of the roaring camp
What dialect did Brent Harte skillfully
Western
What Is the setting of “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?
A county in California
Who said “who dressed like a mine”?
In The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion
Mr. Dimmidge
Who said his position and he was not sorry when the term of his engagement expired the next week? In The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion
The editor
How are Mr. Dimmidge physical appearance and his mission a paradox?
He is a big man carrying a gun half cocked. He appears to be rough and ready for trouble, but really only wants to find his wife
Why did Mr. And Mrs. Dimmidge decide to reconcile their differences?
Because everything they have been doing seems unimportant; they feel ashamed and afraid.
A form of humor whose grotesque and morbid situations reveal bitter disillusionment of its author. Life appears to be a cruel joke played upon man by an impersonal or malevolent force.
Black humor
Who was regarded by many as the first American writer to use black humor
Ambrose Bierce
Why does the reader think Farquhar has escaped?
Farquhar dived deeply as he could
The soldiers had almost finished reloading
He stand at the gate of his own home
Hamlin garland powerfully portrays what?
The farmers plight
What does Hamlin garland describe his realism as?
Vertism(truth)
What work earned Hamlin the Pulitzer Prize?
“A daughter of the middle border”
In return of the private what is the setting?
It is lacrosse Wisconsin after the civil war
In return of the private who said he was like a man lost in a dream
Ed smith
In return of the private who is the wife in this “shuttered to think how near she had come to being a soldier widow”
Emma smith
Who wrote about the simple country people of Maine?
Sarah ORNE Jewett
Which of Sarah Jewett works was rated as her best book?
The country of the pointed firs
In a white heron what is the setting
Maine on a small farm
What in a white heron is Sylvia’s inner conflict about the hunter and his request of her?
The hunter is important enough for her to tell him where the white herons nest is and whether she and Mrs. Tilley need the 10 dollars enough to give away the life of the heron
Who published only 7 poems before she died
Emily Dickinson
What did Emily Dickinson dress in the last years of her life?
White
In what to sections or poems did Dickinson reveal that she is isolated?
Prologue and I’m nobody who are you
In much madness is diviner sense is madness and sense are described as?
A paradox
In the railway train the extended metaphor is?
The train is compared to a horse which is Lapping the miles Feeding itself Stepping around Chasing itself Stopping at the stable door
Quote who is this about “He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children.” And “His body,with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of Owl Creek Bridge
Peyton Farquhar
