Exam-Midterm Flashcards by Jesse White

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Herman Melville

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Anti-Transcendentalism

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Dealt with the question of evil

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Anti-Transcendentalism

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Believed the truths of existence are elusive

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Anti-Transcendentalism

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Characters are more important than the plot

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American Realism

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Concentration was on the middle class

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American Realism

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Henry James

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American Realism

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Mark Twain

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American Realism

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Fireside Poets

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Transcendentalism

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Emerson

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Transcendentalism

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Believed nature was a doorway to a mystical world

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Transcendentalism

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Was derived from immanuel kant

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Transcendentalism

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Transparent eyeball

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Transcendentalism

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Determinism

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Naturalism

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Things happen to people like puppets

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Naturalism

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Heavily influenced by Darwin

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Naturalism

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Developed out of realism

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Naturalism

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Nature is indifferent

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Naturalism

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Dark and uncaring

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Anti-transcendentalism

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Deals with raw and unpleasant experiences

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Naturalism

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Known for Portrait of the Lady

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Henry James

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Changed the spelling of his last name to avoid guilt

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who wrote The Open Boat

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Stephen Crane

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Endorsed grape juice

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Jack London

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Wrote a thousand words a day

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Jack London

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Who is credited with establishing naturalism

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Stephen Crane

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Wrote the Red Badge of Courage

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Stephen Crane

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Who wrote Ethan Frome

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Edith Wharton

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Cited for bravery 15 times during the Civil War

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Ambrose Bierce

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Banished in Mexico in 1913

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Ambrose Bierce

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Wrote Moby Dick

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Herman Melville

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Avid abolitionist

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Ralph Emerson

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Famous quote “to be great is to be misunderstood”

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Emerson

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Jailed because he wouldn’t pay taxes

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Thoreau

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Wrote Walden

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Thoreau

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Follower of Emerson

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Thoreau

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Wrote Billy Budd

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Herman Melville

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Wrote The Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who was Samuel Clemens

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Mark Twain

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Died at 28

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Stephen Crane