I Chart Flashcards
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17th- 18th century authors
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-intellect
- Bradstreet
- Winthrop
- Edwards
- Bradford
- Taylor
- Wheatley
1
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17th- 18th century
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Colonial Neoclassic
–Intellect
- charity, order, reason
- gov needed to control man
- common good
2
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1800- 1860
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Romantic & Gothic
IMAGINATION
INDIVIDUAL
IRRATIONAL
- against neoclassic
- emotion over reason
- man and nature are GOOD
- pushes the edge of reason
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1800- 1860 authors
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IMAGINATION
INDIVIDUAL
IRRATIONAL
- Bryant “father of American Poetry”
- Poe “father of detective story”
4
Q
1800- 1860 Transcendental
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INTUITION
IRRECONCILABLE (no agree with)
-learning transcends the 5 senses
5
Q
Transcendental authors
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- Emerson
- Thoreau
- Dickinson
- whiteman (father of free verse)
6
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Anti transcendentalist
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- man and nature ain’t good
- Hawthorne
- Melville
7
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1860- 1890
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Realism
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET!
- life and characters as they really are
- characters control their destiny
- against romanticism
8
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1860- 1890 authors
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Twain
