Romantiscism & Socio- Cultural Change Flashcards
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1823
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Monroe doctrine:
No European intervention in the Americas
2
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1830
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Indian Removal
Act: Natives forced west to make room for whites
3
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1845
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Manifest Destiny:
US “right” to expansion into Latin America
4
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1846 - 1848
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US - Mexican War;
US when’s territories of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Canada
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Western travel writing
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- recorded government or commercial expeditions and Settlers journeys to Midwest and West
- forms and contests of texts depended on purpose of journey and author
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The Frontier Novel
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- emerged since 1820s in context of the territorial expansion: informed by western travelogues
- addressed (White and occasionally also native) Life on the frontier and the conflicts arising from expansion
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The short story
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- Emerged since 1820s out of text forms of essay, tale & sketch; originally called “short prose tale”
- popularized through growing periodicals and newspaper market and broadening leadership
- is narrative, functional text and prose, Shorter than novel
- “narrative economy” on three levels:
- Selection of material(Focus on few incidences)
- Reduction of complexity (few characters and plot lines)
- Narrative technique (compression of time, change of consciousness, little character development)
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Gothic fiction
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- emerged in the late 18th. C UK in response to rationalism
- emphasizes the irrational, Supernatural, Compulsive, Unconscious, perverse and the horrors they create
- voices fears of being helplessly exposed to external or internal evils beyond one’s Control and explanation
- name refers to typical setting in feudal &/or catholic countries & come in settings in (ruins of) Medieval castles and monasteries
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American Gothic
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Texts articulate threats to individuals or US culture, e.g. Powerlessness vis-à-vis forces of nature or society
10
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Edgar Allan Poe
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- 1809 - 1849
* American poet, Writer, literary critic and theorist
11
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Harman Melville
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- 1819 - 1891
* American sailor and writer
12
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American literature in this era
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- Western travel writing
- The frontier novel
- The short story
- gothic fiction
