Final Flashcards
list 5 books
- Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
- The Morgesons
- The House of Mirth
- Nightwood
- Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
year, author, type
1799, Charles Brocken Brown, American Gothic/sentamentalism/domestic
The Morgesons
year, author, type
1862, Elizabeth Stoddard, female bildungsroman
The House of Mirth
year, author, type
1905, Edith Wharton, transitional: realism/naturalism/romanticism
Nightwood
year, author, type
1936, Djuna Barnes, modernist
Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West
year, author
1985, Cormac McCarthy, post-modernist
realism
defn
coming of age, middle class, plausible plot, tragic, free will and choice
realism
time pd, example
postbellum (post civil war, 1865-1900)
House of Mirth
American Gothic
defn
symbolic landscapes, mysteries, suspense, horror, doubling, supernatural, women in distress
American gothic
time pd, example
Early Republic (1830-1920)
Edgar Huntly
naturalism
defn
focus on systems, fatalistic, pessimistic
naturalism
time pd, example
postbellum (post civil war, 1865-1900)
House of Mirth
sentimentalism
defn
captivity narrative, sensibility and sympathy
sentimentalism
time pd, example
antebellum (pre civil war, 18th-19th cent.)
Edgar Huntly
romanticism
defn
extraordinary characters doing extraordinary things, variety of fates