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19 Cards in this Set
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Moby-Dick
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Herman Melville
1851 (American Renaissance) narrator: Ishmael, first person genre: accumulation of many (allegory, epic, adventure story, quest tale, tragedy) features: monomania (obsession w/Moby Dick) summary: Captain Ahab chases after a white whale |
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"The American Scholar"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
1837 narrator: Emerson, first person genre: essay features: Transcendentalism, dense, aphoristic, promotes individualism, encourages self-improvement summary: calls for a distinctly American scholar |
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Nature
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
1836 narrator: Emerson, first person genre: essay features: Transcendentalism, dense, aphoristic, promotes individualism, encourages self-improvement summary: splits nature into 4 uses: Commodity, Beauty, Language, and Discipline; transparent eyeball; idealism; man doesn't appreciate nature enough |
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"Self-Reliance"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
1841 narrator: Emerson, first person genre: essay features: Transcendentalism, dense, aphoristic, promotes individualism, encourages self-improvement summary: trust thyself; self-worth; go against conformity; each man is a genius; disapproval of the world |
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"The Poet"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
1844 narrator: Emerson, first person genre: essay features: Transcendentalism, dense, aphoristic, promotes individualism, encourages self-improvement summary: calls for a true American poet (answered by Walt Whitman) |
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"Experience"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
1844 narrator: Emerson, first person genre: essay features: Transcendentalism, dense, aphoristic, promotes individualism, encourages self-improvement summary: life must be lived, not over-intellectualized; mentions God, illusions, & dreams |
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"Slavery in Massachusetts"
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Henry David Thoreau
1854 narrator: Thoreau, first person genre: essay summary: speech given at anti-slavery rally; talks about Fugitive Slave Law |
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"Resistance to Civil Government"
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Henry David Thoreau
1849 narrator: Thoreau, first person genre: essay summary: government is best that governs least; don't support a government with taxes if you don't like it; Thoreau went to jail for that reason (didn't support slavery so he didn't pay taxes) |
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Walden
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Henry David Thoreau
1854 narrator: Thoreau, first person genre: autobiography summary: lives in a cabin to have a simplified lifestyle; property is pretentious; nature is nice |
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"The Raven"
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Edgar Allan Poe
1845 narrator: third person genre: Gothic poem summary: a raven talks to a guy and only says "Nevermore" |
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"The Imp of the Perverse"
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Edgar Allan Poe
1845 narrator: third person genre: Gothic short story summary: confesses to murder; killed simply b/c it was evil to do so |
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"The Black Cat"
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Edgar Allan Poe
1843 narrator: third person genre: Gothic short story summary: killed his cat |
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The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850 narrator: third person genre: Romance novel with allegorical elements summary: adulterer Hester Prynne wears a red letter "A" to symbolize her sin (had an affair w/Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale despite being married to Roger Chillingworth); has a kid, Pearl features: set in 17th century Puritan New England |
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"Young Goodman Brown"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
1835 narrator: third person genre: Romantic short story summary: Goodman Brown leaves beautiful wife, Faith, to go into the woods; sees that entire town worships Satan; loses faith in humanity features: critique of allegorical thinking; use your reason & don't jump to conclusions features: set in 17th century Puritan New England |
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"The Birth-Mark"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
1843 narrator: third person genre: short story summary: Aylmer wants to fix the birthmark on his otherwise perfect wife's cheek (Georgiana) features: science vs. nature, birthmark represents mortality & humanity (can't be perfect), playing God |
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Preface to The House of Seven Gables
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
1851 narrator: first person summary: disclaimer by author features: value of romance over reality (chose to write romance over a realistic novel about surroundings) |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
1845 narrator: autobiography summary: Douglass' life features: reflective |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
1852 narrator: third person genre: novel summary: Shelbys sell Eliza and Tom; Tom goes to St. Clare's b/c he saved Eva from drowning; Eliza runs away to Canada (chased by slave-hunter Loker); Tom sold to Simon Legree (terrible slaveowner) features: wrote to condemn slavery; plea to maternal sympathy & domestic influence of middle class white women (pillars of society); sentimentalism; diagetic sympathy (sympathy w/in the text); hyperbole; dramatic |
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"Song of Myself"
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Walt Whitman
1855 narrator: first person genre: poem summary: poetry needs no external structure; rhyme & beauty should come naturally; individualism; egalitarian (working-class man); answer to Emerson's call in "The Poet" features: Transcendentalism; free verse; lyric mode |
