Historical American Periods Flashcards
1
Q
When did Transcendentalism occur?
A
1820 - 1830
2
Q
When did Romanticism occur?
A
1800 - 1855
3
Q
When did Realism occur?
A
1855 - 1900
4
Q
When did Naturalism occur?
A
1880 - 1900
5
Q
When did Southern Gothic occur?
A
late 1900
6
Q
When did the Harlem Renaissance occur?
A
1920s
7
Q
When did Modernism occur?
A
1900 - 1946
8
Q
What is the content of transcendentalism? (3)
A
- that human beings have self wisdom, and may gain this knowledge or wisdom by turning into the ebb and flow of nature?
- Revolves around the self.
- Specifically, the betterment of the self.
9
Q
What is the content of Romanticism? (5)
A
- Sense of idealism
- Focus on the individuals inner feelings
- Emphasis on imagination > rationalism
- Urbanisation VS nostalgia
- The burden of Puritan past
10
Q
What is the content of realism? (9)
A
- Includes social realism + regional realism
- Common characters not idealised realistically portrayed (immigrants, labourers)
- Class systems
- Society corrupted by materialism
- Moralism through observation
- Segregation between N + S
- Myth of AD
- Southern plantation
- westward expansion
11
Q
What is the content of naturalism? (8)
A
- Survival
- Fate
- Violence
- Nature is indifferent
- ‘Brute within’
- Greed
- Power
- Fight for survival in an amoral world
12
Q
What is the content of southern gothic? (7)
A
- Deeply flawed, disturbing, eccentric characters
- Decayed or derelict settings.
- Grotesque situations.
- Sinister events relating to or stemming from poverty.
- Alienation
- Crime
- Violence
13
Q
What is the content of the Harlem Renaissance?
A
- influence of slavery
- Black identity
- community,
- everyday experience of Black people.
14
Q
What is the content of modernism? (3)
A
- Alienation and disconnection
- un-effectively communication.
- Grief over the loss of the past
- disillusionment on the AD (TGG)
15
Q
What is the style of transcendentalism? (3)
A
- Individualism
- Idealism
- The divinity of nature
