Parushi Ruhil Flashcards
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Transcendentalism
Emerson and Thoreau
Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1962
Albert Albee
George+ Martha
Honey+ Nick
Uncle Tom’s Cabin;
or, Life Among the Lowly,
is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852
ground work for civil war
appeared as a 40-week serial in The National Era,
propaganda novel
American Realism
Mark Twain William Dean Howells Rebecca Harding Davis John W. DeForest Joseph Kirkland E. W. Howe Hamlin Garland Henry James
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution
Leatherstocking Tales
(1826- 1841)Each novel features Natty Bumppo, a frontiersman known to European-American settlers as “Leatherstocking”, “The Pathfinder”, and “the trapper”
Edgar Allen Poe
January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849
Romanticism
1845, Poe published his poem “The Raven”
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was published and widely reviewed in 1838.
Edgar Allen Poe’s Literary Magazine
Stylus
Edgar Allen Poe’s style
transcendentalism, gothic
Poe’s enemy
Lowell
Poe’s impact on
Mallarme
Baudelaire
Rimbaud
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sage of Concord” and “The Buddha of the West”
Poe called Emerson
Mysticism for mysticism’s sake
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s education
graduate of the Harvard Divinity School,
Moby Dick
the whale,
Moby-Dick, written in 1851, recounts the adventures of the narrator Ishmael as he sails on the whaling ship, Pequod, under the command of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Melville dedicated the book to fellow Dark Romantic, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Ishmael is the sole survivor, rescued by another ship- Rachael.
Mark Twain’s Real name
Samuel Clemens
Walt Whitman’s sexuality
Homosexual
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of grass publication
1855
oh, captain, my captain has written
1865, death of Abraham Lincoln
