Random Quals Questions

Question 1

What did Keats do for the ode?

Answer 1

deflates it.
no longer triumphant, heightening ambivalence (in the name of negative capability)
topic change: bird, emotion, an urn, a minor deity to a dead religion
(vs. Ancient Greek super formal, performed to music vs. Coleridge/WW, topics of human mortality, the triumph of B over France)

Question 2

Talk about the generations of Romantic poets

Answer 2

First Gen: Coleridge and WW, caught up in the ideals of the French Rev, anti-enlightenment
Second Gen: burned by the first gen’s growing conservatistim, all die young and romantic

Question 3

What’s an anti-masque?

Answer 3

the antimasque is a section of comic/grotesque dancing before or within the masque. Jonson uses it in News from the New World and in many of his other masques. Not trendy, but Jonson keeps going for it.

Question 4

What is the difference between a masque and a play?

Answer 4

The masque is participatory, a one-time thing, moral by uplift or by establishing hierarchy, lots more music and dancing.

Question 5

Was the Beggar’s Opera popular? Why or why not?

Answer 5

Most successful dramatic work of both year and century

collision of opera and ballad forms increases accessibility

Question 6

Which of your texts were published in serial form? What difference does that make?

Answer 6

Capitola, North and South, Hard Times
Capitola addresses its own seriality most seriously, Southworth as a purely commercial author

N/S and Hard Times are rather interesting in the serial genre in that they aren’t pageturners. The social-problem novel aspect of them is much more important.

Question 7

Compare the political philosophies of Hobbes and More

Answer 7

Both use self-sufficiency and necessity as foundational standards for their decisions
Both seek to resolve chaos through system