Movements

Question 1

1650-1750

Answer 1

Puritain/Colonialism

Question 2

1750-1800

Answer 2

Revolutionary/Age of Reason

Question 3

1800-1860

Answer 3

Romanticism/American Gothic

Question 4

1803-1882

Answer 4

Transcendentalism

Question 5

1855-1900

Answer 5

Regional Realism

Question 6

Define American Realism:

Answer 6

A style that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives/everyday activities of ordinary people.

Question 7

Factors of regional Realism:

Answer 7

Social class, religion, race, dialect

Question 8

Critics for Regional Realism

Answer 8

Emory Elliot: ‘Mark Twain transforms the American novel’

Jocelyn Chadwick: ‘learn about people and places we’ll never know’

Question 9

Writers of Regional Realism:

Answer 9

Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnet

Question 10

Define verisimilitude

Answer 10

The search for truth (Realism)

Question 11

Who said this? ‘Failure is not the dark side of the American Dream; it is the foundation of it.’

Answer 11

Mark Twain

Question 12

What is the Abolitionist movement?

Answer 12

Came about to abolish slavery, in literature black characters were shown as normal people

Question 13

Define Naturalism

Answer 13

An extreme form of Realism, one that moved away from the middle class of the realists and pertained more to the dregs of society

Question 14

Characteristics of naturalism

Answer 14

Industrial, lower class, the brute within, free will is an illusion

Question 15

Critics of naturalism

Answer 15

Walcutt says that the naturalist novel offers ‘clinical, panoramic, slice-of-live’ drama that is often a ‘chronicle of despair’

Question 16

Writers of naturalism

Answer 16

Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Richard Wright

Question 17

Social Realism, social conscience:

Answer 17

Social class, ethnicity, and gender!

Question 18

Writer of Social Realism:

Answer 18

Edith Warton ‘The Age of Innocence’

Question 19

When was the civil war?

Answer 19

1861-1865

Question 20

Post civil war writing decade

Answer 20

1870-80

Question 21

Industrial revolution decade

Answer 21

1880-90

Question 22

Age of immigration decade

Answer 22

1890-1900

Question 23

Examples of transcendentalist texts/authors

Answer 23

Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman
Little women by Louisa May Alcott

Question 24

Transcendentalist

Answer 24

Focus on nature and the individual- negative about society

Does not look at god as a key part of society

Question 25

who said this ‘romanticism is really a childish throwback horror of being alone at the top - which is the real horror’

Answer 25

fitzgerald