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
romanticism
time pd, example
antebellum (pre civil war)
Morgesons (transitional)
regionalism
defn
env. shapes characters, landscape, rural, character descriptions neutral and humorous
regionalism
time pd, example
postbellum (post civil war, 1865-1900)
modernism
defn
rejects traditional norms, marginalized identities, urban areas, chronology, stream of consciousness
modernism
time pd, example
btwn wars (early 20th cent.)
Nightwood
