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Literary movements Flashcards

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Sentimentalism

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female protagonist, moral compass

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Romanticism

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emotion, nature, imagination. Individualism and democracy. Individuals tested by circumstance and emotion

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Transcendentalism

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Nature to free mind/spirit.

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Realism

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Realistic, character more important than plot. Class is important, plausible events. Natural vernacular, tone comic, satiric or matter-of-fact.

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Significant realist authors

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Henry James, Howells, Rebecca Harding Davis, Mark Twain

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Naturalism

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Social conditions, heredity, and environment shaping human character. Focus on lower classes. Commonplace fictional world. Focus on how the character reacts. Urban setting. Third person omniscient.

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Significant naturalist writers

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Frank Norris, Dreiser, London, Crane, Wharton, Glasgow, Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), Sinclair.

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Modernism

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Effects of the first World War and the economic crisis. Representing African American life.

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Free indirect discourse

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3rd person narrative slipping in and out of character’s consciousness

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