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18 Cards in this Set
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EAP: writing style
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swift action (wanted his stories to be read in one sitting) stories take place at night, not dated
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EAP: salary
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grossly underpaid, made only 6,200$ in 18 years spent writing
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EAP: died...
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shortly after his wife Sissy died
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EAP: cause of death
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unkown
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EAP: POV
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often uses first person point of view- no name for narrator
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Theme of stories usually involved
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fall of reason
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narraotr was unreliable because
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they often went crazy
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What does the character Arthur Mervyn discover about the city?
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It is 'an industrial hell that devours all hope and ambition'
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Describe the romantic journey
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Tot he country side (associated with independence, moral clarity, and healthful living)
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For gothic authors, what is this journey?
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A voyage to the country of the immagination
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Who was america's first truly popular author
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Washington Irving
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What is the general definition for Romanticism?
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The name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason
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Romanticism was developed in part as a reaction against
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rationalism
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What did the romantics value most?
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imagination and individualism
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according to the Romantics, what was the highest form of literature?
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poetry
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What did the American Gothics particularly like to explore?
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Psychological exploration of the human mind
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Romanticism
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reaction against rationalism
individualism imagination over reason love of nture interest in the past mysticism/supernatural Gothic Romantic Hero |
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The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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