Historical American Periods Flashcards
When did Transcendentalism occur?
1820 - 1830
When did Romanticism occur?
1800 - 1855
When did Realism occur?
1855 - 1900
When did Naturalism occur?
1880 - 1900
When did Southern Gothic occur?
late 1900
When did the Harlem Renaissance occur?
1920s
When did Modernism occur?
1900 - 1946
What is the content of transcendentalism? (3)
- 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.
What is the content of Romanticism? (5)
- Sense of idealism
- Focus on the individuals inner feelings
- Emphasis on imagination > rationalism
- Urbanisation VS nostalgia
- The burden of Puritan past
What is the content of realism? (9)
- 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
What is the content of naturalism? (8)
- Survival
- Fate
- Violence
- Nature is indifferent
- ‘Brute within’
- Greed
- Power
- Fight for survival in an amoral world
What is the content of southern gothic? (7)
- Deeply flawed, disturbing, eccentric characters
- Decayed or derelict settings.
- Grotesque situations.
- Sinister events relating to or stemming from poverty.
- Alienation
- Crime
- Violence
What is the content of the Harlem Renaissance?
- influence of slavery
- Black identity
- community,
- everyday experience of Black people.
What is the content of modernism? (3)
- Alienation and disconnection
- un-effectively communication.
- Grief over the loss of the past
- disillusionment on the AD (TGG)
What is the style of transcendentalism? (3)
- Individualism
- Idealism
- The divinity of nature
What is the style of romanticism? (3)
- Fixed gender behaviour
- Fuels abolishment movement
- Re - imagines American past
What is the style of realism? (4)
-Social realism aims to change social problems
- Civil war demands truer Literature
- Dark satirical language
- Dialects exposing cultures and ways of life
What is the style of naturalism? (4)
- Pitting God against nature
- lower class governed by hierarchy
- ill-educated
- accurate depiction of detail
What is the style of Southern Gothic?
- Exposes social issues
- Explores moral integrity
- Unease
What is the style of the Harlem Renaissance?
- Draws attention to the horrors of slavery + racism
What is the style of modernism?
- The reader experiences the internal emotions and experiences of individual
What is an example of realism?
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
What is an example of modernism
My Antonia
When was the 1st wave of feminism
Late 19th century early 20th century
What happened in the first wave of feminism?
- Better education
- Less stigma around women working
- “new woman” emerged
When was the second wave of feminism?
1960s
What happened in the second wave of feminism?
More acceptable to talk about issues such as:
- contraception
- sexual abuse
- pornography
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Social realism contains:
Social class description e.g My Antonia - marginal migrants at the forefront
