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Parushi Ruhil Flashcards

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Transcendentalism

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Emerson and Thoreau

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Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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1962
Albert Albee
George+ Martha
Honey+ Nick

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin;

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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

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American Realism

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Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
Rebecca Harding Davis
John W. DeForest
Joseph Kirkland
E. W. Howe
Hamlin Garland
Henry James
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Rip Van Winkle

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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

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Leatherstocking Tales

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(1826- 1841)Each novel features Natty Bumppo, a frontiersman known to European-American settlers as “Leatherstocking”, “The Pathfinder”, and “the trapper”

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Edgar Allen Poe

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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.

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Edgar Allen Poe’s Literary Magazine

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Stylus

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Edgar Allen Poe’s style

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transcendentalism, gothic

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Poe’s enemy

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Lowell

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Poe’s impact on

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Mallarme
Baudelaire
Rimbaud

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Sage of Concord” and “The Buddha of the West”

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Poe called Emerson

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Mysticism for mysticism’s sake

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s education

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graduate of the Harvard Divinity School,

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Moby Dick

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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.

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Mark Twain’s Real name

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Samuel Clemens

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Walt Whitman’s sexuality

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Homosexual

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Walt Whitman’s Leaves of grass publication

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1855

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oh, captain, my captain has written

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1865, death of Abraham Lincoln

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Invisible Man was written by

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H.G. Wells

Ralph Ellison 1952

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Holden Caulfield

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Catcher In the Rye

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USA, A trilogy

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John Dos Passos

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Mice and Men written taken by

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Robert Burns

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Born Idiot in sound and fury

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Manawaka Novels

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Margaret Laurence

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Herzog, year and written by

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1964 Saul Bellow

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Natty bumpo in whose novel

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Who wrote Leatherstocking novels

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Aeolian Harp in favorite of

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Melville’s post houmous work

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Portrait of a Lady year and writer

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1885, Henry James

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Old man and the fish, writer, character, and how many days without fish

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Hemingway, Santigo, 84

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Pen name of Tennessee Williams

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Thomas Lavier Williams

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Elegy on Lincoln

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Walt Whitman, lilac lost

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Chicago was written by

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Carl Sandburg

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Last of Mohicans was written by

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The Scarlett Letter was written by

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Nathaniel Hawthrone in the year 1850

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tom sawyer was written in

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The red badge of courage

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1895, by Stephen crane

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Three Lives was written by

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Gertrude Stein

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North of Boston was written by

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Robert Frost

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the Great Gatsby was written by

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1925, Fitzgerald

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A farewell to arms

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Hemingway in 1929

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lolita year and who?

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1955, Nabokov

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A streetcar named desire

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Death of a Salesman

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Grapes of Wrath

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