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Important Literature 2 Flashcards

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Transitional figure between the Neoclassical and Romanticist styles, showing characteristics of both

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Philip Freneau

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The Indian Burying Ground features the concept of the

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Noble Savage

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Early Romanticism (Transcendentalism) versus late (Dark) Romanticism

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Two Strains

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Deep appreciation of _____ was a feature of Romanticism

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Nature

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Preoccupation with the _____/______/______ in general was a feature of Romanticism

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genius/hero/ exceptional figure

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Emphasis on the _____ and ______ was a feature of romanticism

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artist and imagination

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_____ over _____/ senses over intellect was a feature of romanticism

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emotion over reason

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Emphasis on/interest in ________. was a feature of romanticism

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folk culture

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Predilection for the _____, remote mysterious, weird, occult, monstrous, diseased, even the satanic was a feature of the romanticism.

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exotic

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America is more confident as a nation and is taken more seriously

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War of 1812

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America starts to define itself away from Europe and develop a national identity.

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Nationalism

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Turbulent, dynamic, ambitious, optimistic, and independent

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European views of America

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13
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How many states were admitted between 1815 and 1860?

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Fifteen

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14
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How much does the population rise from 1820 to 1860?

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9.6 million to 31.4 million

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From 1800 to 1830, there are ______ immigrants

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250,000

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From 1830 to 1850, there are _______ immigrants to America, mostly from Ireland and Germany

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2.5 million

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17
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Increasingly harden after 1830

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Class lines

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18
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By 1850, America has more ________ than Europe

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millionaires

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19
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The years from about 1830 to 1850

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Abolistionsist

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20
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What were some Utopian Groups?

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Oneida community & Shakers

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From about 1790 to 1840, Baptist and Methodist membership skyrockets. LDS founded. Holiness movement

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The Second Great Awakening

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A transitional figure between Enlightenment and Romanticism

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Washington Irving

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Washington Irving was often called

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“The First American Man of Letters”

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Washington Irving’s publication in 1809. It was a satirical work, it mocks histories of the period

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The History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker

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Washington Irving’s publication in 1820. Published Irving becomes famous and abroad.

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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent

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26
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A short anonymous narrative passed down through oral tradition . It has a “group authorship”

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Folktale

27
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The Fireside poets use standard poetic _____, _____, _____

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conventions, meter, and rhyme

28
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Transcendentalism is the _______________________

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Dominant Romanticism in America

29
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Everything in the mind/ intellect has been previously experienced by the senses

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John Locke

30
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There are intuitions/ transcendental forms in the mind/ intellect that ARE NOT gained from the senses, but the mind CANNOT know reality absolutely

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Immanuel Kant

31
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The mind/ intellect CAN apprehend absolute spiritual truths without the senses, past authority, or reasoning truth may be “felt”

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Transcendentalists

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Ultimately “ human beings can intuitively transcend the limits of the senses and of logic and directly receive higher truths denied to the more mundane ways of knowing

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Transcendant way of Knowing

33
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Lecture halls for organized adult education

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The LYCEUM Movement

34
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What was published anonymously in 1836 that Put forth Emerson’s ideas on transcendentalism ?

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Nature

35
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What speech was given by Ralph Waldo Emerson that urges an American literature and scholarship?

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“The American Scholar

36
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Emerson was shocked by the ______________ in the public media about his delivered speech “The Divinity School Address’’

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Very negative reaction

37
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From 1850 to 1855, many of the best known books of the 19th century American literature are published,

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The American Renaissance

38
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Was wrote by Nathaniel Hawthorn in 1850?

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The Scarlet Letter

39
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Was wrote by Nathaniel Hawthorn in 1851?

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The House of the Seven Gables

40
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Was wrote by Henry David Thoreau in 1854?

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Walden

41
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Was wrote by Walt Whitman in 1855?

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Leaves of Grass

42
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In his day, Poe was mostly known for his _______ and _______

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Literary criticism and poetry.

43
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Today, Poe is mostly known for his contribution to

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short fiction

44
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Poe is widely recognized today as having invented ________ and _________

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detective fiction and science fiction

45
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The Raven being viewed as “death” is an example of

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symbolism

46
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What is a short story as Poe theorized it?

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Short enough to be read in one sitting, one single effect, one protagonist, one major incident in the plot

47
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A ______________, usually set in an isolated location and featuring a “damsel in distress” and fantastic plot elements. Usually , ________________

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tale of humor. Setting is stressed over characterization.

48
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The lonely house, the storm, the “woman child”, a menacing male “monster”, a horrendous crime in which it is usually murder, black/ white images, and sexuality are all

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Major elements of the gothic

49
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During the civil war, Fredrick Douglas was instrumental in forming ______________, which eventually totaled ______________.

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Units of free black soldiers, 10% of union forces.

50
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Genre dating from 1830 to 1860- autobiographical accounts of former slaves

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Slave narrative

51
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What is Herman Melville’s earliest publication?

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Typee (1846)

52
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What are the three publication in Herman Melville’s later life?

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Moby-Dick (1851), The Piazza Tales(1856), and Billy Budd, forelopmann (1924)

53
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What are sources for Moby- Dick?

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The Whale Ship Essex, and Mocha Dick.

54
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From about 1820 to 1860, there were numerance and varied reform movements in the united states.

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Temperance movement, women’s rights movement, abolitionist movement, utopian groups

55
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When asked if he had made peace with God, he replied, “ I was not aware we had ever quarreled.”

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Famous last words of Henry David Thoreau

56
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The Maine woods (1864) and Cape Cod (1865)

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Excursion writings

57
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A Plea for Captain John Brown and Rewards After the Hanging of John Brown ( both in 1859)

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Abolitionist writings

58
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Who was “Civil Disobedience” vey influential on in the 20th century?

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Gandhi and King

59
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Was known as The Poet of the American revolution

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Philip Freneau

60
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Identify the person:
Over the course of his life, he worked as a school teacher, a plantation secretary, sailor on a privateer (captured and released), shipmaster, newspaper reporter and editor, and edited the national gazzette

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Philip Freneau

61
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Characteristic of Whitman’s poetry

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Barbaric, unconventional/revolutionary, deals frankly with extremly private experiences including sexuality, and celebrates the collective experience of an idealized american democracy

62
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A first statement is repeated or amplified in a different form

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Parallelism

63
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What are whitman’s poetic conventions?

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Catalogue/listing

64
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Whitman’s lists __________ as they go along

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grow in intensity

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