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Final Flashcards

1
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list 5 books

A
  1. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
  2. The Morgesons
  3. The House of Mirth
  4. Nightwood
  5. Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West
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Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

year, author, type

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1799, Charles Brocken Brown, American Gothic/sentamentalism/domestic

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The Morgesons

year, author, type

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1862, Elizabeth Stoddard, female bildungsroman

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The House of Mirth

year, author, type

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1905, Edith Wharton, transitional: realism/naturalism/romanticism

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Nightwood

year, author, type

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1936, Djuna Barnes, modernist

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Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West

year, author

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1985, Cormac McCarthy, post-modernist

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realism

defn

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coming of age, middle class, plausible plot, tragic, free will and choice

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realism

time pd, example

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postbellum (post civil war, 1865-1900)
House of Mirth

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American Gothic

defn

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symbolic landscapes, mysteries, suspense, horror, doubling, supernatural, women in distress

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American gothic

time pd, example

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Early Republic (1830-1920)
Edgar Huntly

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naturalism

defn

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focus on systems, fatalistic, pessimistic

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naturalism

time pd, example

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postbellum (post civil war, 1865-1900)
House of Mirth

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sentimentalism

defn

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captivity narrative, sensibility and sympathy

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sentimentalism

time pd, example

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antebellum (pre civil war, 18th-19th cent.)
Edgar Huntly

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romanticism

defn

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extraordinary characters doing extraordinary things, variety of fates

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romanticism

time pd, example

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antebellum (pre civil war)
Morgesons (transitional)

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regionalism

defn

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env. shapes characters, landscape, rural, character descriptions neutral and humorous

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regionalism

time pd, example

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postbellum (post civil war, 1865-1900)

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modernism

defn

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rejects traditional norms, marginalized identities, urban areas, chronology, stream of consciousness

20
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modernism

time pd, example

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btwn wars (early 20th cent.)
Nightwood

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