Final Exam Review Flashcards
Amour Dure
Vernon Lee. Story about Medea the crazy spirit from the past. “very modern scientific vandalism,” “Ah, that was Italy, it was the Past!” He sees antiquated figures walking down the road, becomes obsessed with Medea and becomes less mentally stable. Thought his love to be the best. Robert thought she would follow him to her grave. An eternally threatening woman slightly victimized by her gender.
Urbania, Madonna Medea de Carpi, Giovanfrancesco Pico, Marcantonio Frangipani, statue of Duke Robert (put her picture in his tomb), Prinzivalle delgi Ordelaffi Pierluigi Orsini (Duke of Stimigliano), main character is Polish (Spiridion Trepka)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Minute on Indian Education (primitive gods, stuck in rome, grossly undernourished, like colonization nars, other cultures have nothing worth learning, English lang and thought is superior)
George Eliot
Middlemarch
John Ruskin
From the Stones of Venice. Gothic is a style which tries to get many things at once (in an ideal nature – many replications have fallen short). TheGothic isn’t just one of the many “Gothic” traits (“all or some of these things, and many other things with them, when they come together so as to have life” (1495).He wished for a majority of Gothic qualities. Savageness: the wild North way of art. Landscape emulation. Servile ornament: slavery, lowered standards so workers could reach: yet also the glorious result of laboring inferior minds. Always something salvagable in undereducated minds. Men aren’t tools. Pointing out problems of industrialization of men. Buy from the current system and encourage slavery. (stopped at approx 1501)
Oke of Okehurst
Vernon Lee. **A story about the woman in the yellow room who got all uppity with the main character and whose cousin brother was all-submissive like. **
Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady
Vernon Lee. A story about a young prince who found that his painting became his REALITY!1!!
Duke Balthasar Maria, Snake Lady Oriana, Red Palace at Luna, Jesuit, dwarf and Jester, Sparkling Waters
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Lotus Eaters (foreign mysticism, Odiousness). The lotus fruit made people “lose all desire return home.” The sleepy desire to hang around for longer than’s prudent.” Tenny wrote about the idyllic past. He’s been called, “… the most instinctive rebel against the societ in which he was the mort perfect conformist.
John Ruskin
From Modern Painters. “But I say that the art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.” “… not by the mode of representing and saying, but by what is represented and said, tha the respective greatness either of the painter or the writer is to be finally determined.”
Mary Kingsley
From Travels in West Africa (understands derogatory language of Africa and parodies it, seems to enjoy adventure, talks about alien environment with humor and not condescending language, refers to England/relates to it, not always fantastical in her desc., Obanjo laughs at Englishman, while situation seems silly (at points).
Ruyard Kipling
The White Man’s Burden (imposing, habitually sinful natives who whites have to shoulder, half-devil, half-child, sacrifice to help the savages that is hard and unforgiving work, prepare to be challenged like men, brace for their judgement (of natives/fellow Englishmen?).
Dante Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel (lover from heaven, pre-Raphealite painter, obsessed with distance, waiting for lover in heaven)
A Wicked Voice
Vernon Lee. A story about the Wagner-esque composer who heard the voice of a phantom god-sounding singer.
Count Alvise.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shallot (crazy loom painting, isle in middle of lake beyond Camelot, sees Lancelot goin down the lane)
William Morris
The Defense of Guenevere. Morris disliked nineteenth century and wished to recapture the “lost beauty, harmony, and sense of community of the Middle Ages.” Was a fan of Ruskin’s adherence to copying nature faithfully.
A Wedding Chest
Vernon Lee. Story about a posthumous grave raping.
Desiderio of Castiglione, Ser Piero, Messer Troilo, Monna Maddalena.
Dionea
Vernon Lee. A story about the crazy sea woman who seems to be persephone or venus or someone like that. Foreign incompetency and isolation, along with femme fatale. Starts love epidemic (sister Giuliana runs away, people start looking at each other (MORE info plz!!))
Venus-Turner of hearts, Lady Evelyn Savelli (Donna Evelina). Father Domenico.
Henry Morton Stanley
from Through the Dark Continent (ferocious expl of Africa and of the hellish wails of natives). The growing imperialistic notion of colonizing the savages. Feels heroic in his all-throwing at the danger of the wilderness (reminds me of Kipling’s WMBurden) and of the terrifying excoticism of foreign lands. “Vicarious” enjoyment of the foreign lands (take from 1746 – not Stanley)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Coming of Arthur (a summary of Arthur’s life)
Christina Rosetti (Goblin Market)
Definitely seems to be about the allure of sexual promiscuity and the fear of a lost innocence. The threat of excess – Laura captured and Lizzie saves by bringing fruits back to Laura. She was a very devout woman who found fulfillment in “haunting lyrics about goblin men and love beyond the grave.” Rosetti was viewed as the “high priestess of Pre-Raphaelitism.” The realm of the magical enabled the entrance into forbbiden realms of “violence, temptation, and transofmration, yet moralized endings sought to tame even the wildest tales for social and ethical instruction.”
Rosetti Poems
A few “Song”s, “Remember,” “After Death,” “A Pause,” “Echo,” “Dead Before Death,” “Cobwebs,” “A Triad,” “In an Artist’s Studio,” “A Birthday,” “An Apple-Gathering,” “Winter: My Secret,” “Up-Hill,” “Goblin Market.”
