english Flashcards
French revolution
1789
industrial revolution
1780
peterloo massacre
1819
abolishment of slave trade: where slave trading is was banned but it still basically still went on
1807
Total abolishment of of the slave institution
1833
restoration of Charles the second
1660
formal realism
“a narrative method” for producing “a full and authentic report of
human experience
probability
as a principle of artistic construction defines not just what events
are likely to happen, but also how characters and society are likely to react to
events
the novel
Richardson turns the familiar letter into a dramatic form by inventing a technique called writing to the moment
gothic novel
a turn away from regular novels that focus on clarity, gothic novels focus more on the pleasure of uncertainty
Menippean Satire
Menippean satire is a style of satire that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities.
The beautiful
not perfection but beauty in weakness. beauty is Small, Smoothness, Gradual Variation
the sublime
that which excites ideas of pain and danger, that which excites
feelings of terror
ottava Rima
Italian poetry style that is written in iambic pentameter, that has eight lines per stanza
mirror
art is an
imitation [of nature] seemed almost too obvious to need iteration or proof.