Literary movements Flashcards
When was the Romantic movement?
1820-1860
When was Sentimentalism?
pre-1880
When did Transcendentalism develop?
1820-1840
When was the Gilded Age?
1870-1900
When was the rise of the new woman?
1880-1890
When was the progressive era?
1890-1920
Who created the idea of the over-soul?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When was Realism?
1860-1900
When was the American Civil War?
1861-1865
How did Amy Kaplan describe Realism?
“a strategy for imagining and managing the threats of social change”
When was the Naturalist movement?
1890-1930
What was the message of Naturalist novels?
Social conditions shaped human character.
What did Charles Walcutt say about Naturalist novels?
“chronicle of despair”
What is the conflict of Naturalist novels?
Man against nature.
What movement was Steinbeck and Sinclair from?
Naturalism
