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Survey of Am. & Brit. Literature

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By: Carina K
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Decks in this class (13)

The Middle Ages
contains background & context, "The Wanderer", "Beowulf", "The Canterbury Tales"
22  cards
Early Modern Period
background and context, Thomas Platter's London diary, "The Tempest"
13  cards
Restoration & Early 18th Century
background and context, "Ooronoko: The Royal Slave", "Robinson Crusoe"
15  cards
Puritanism
background & context, "Huswifery", Phillis Wheatley, "In Memory of my Dear Grandchild"
14  cards
American Romanticism
background and context, "Leaves of Grass", "When I Heard the learn'd Astronomer", "Some Keep the Sabbath"
13  cards
Dark Romanticism
background and context, "The Fall of the House of Usher"
6  cards
American Realism and Slave Narratives
background and context, "The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass",
8  cards
British Romanticism
background and context, Preface William Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely as a cloud", "Mary, A Fiction", "Frankenstein"
26  cards
Victorianism
background and context, "Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde"
14  cards
American Modernism
background and context, "Of Modern Poetry", "In a Station of the Metro", "The Story of an Hour", The Harlem Renaissance, "I, Too, Sing America", "Black Woman"
27  cards
British Modernism
background and context, "Eveline", "Kew Gardens", "The Waste Land"
14  cards
American Postmodernism
background and context, "The Babysitter", "Recitatif"
10  cards
Postcolonialism, After Empire?
context and background, "Lawley Road", "Girls At War", "Ruins of a Great House"
16  cards

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