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Who was the first published American woman writer?
Anne Bradstreet, published The Tenth Muse in 1650.
Who wrote "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and "To the University of Cambridge in New England"?
Philis Wheatley
Former slave who wrote pious poetry. In 1770 she wrote a poetic tribute on the death of the Calvinist George Whitefield that received widespread acclaim in Boston. In 1772 had to defend her literary ability in court
Philis Wheatley
Wrote about America as a "city upon a hill."
John Winthrop
Wrote the Journal, a puritan chronicle of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
A colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian. One of the greatest and most profound American evangelical theologians. His work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology and the Puritan heritage.
John Edwards
"Personal Narrative" is a Puritan autobiography that recounts his spiritual conversion.
John Edwards
Wrote "Magnalia Christi Americana" in 1702, "The Ecclesiastical History of New England"
Cotton Mather
Who wrote the quaker spiritual autobiography "Journal"
John Woolman
A colonial American woman, who wrote a description of her three months with Native Americans. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. ____ _____
Mary Rowlandson
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Edgar Allen Poe
"The Purloined Letter"
Edgar Allen Poe
"The Mystery of Marie Roget"
Edgar Allen Poe
"I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee-"
Edgar Allen Poe
19th Century abolitionist, and writer of more than 10 books, the most famous being Uncle Tom's Cabin which describes life in slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Shelby family, Tom Loker, Eliza and Cassy are all characters in what novel?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby about to lose his farm due to massive debts. Even though he and his wife (Emily Shelby) believe they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise money by selling two of his slaves
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A twentieth century journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche".
H.L. Mencken
The American Language is his 1919 book about changes Americans had made to the English Language.
H.L. Mencken
Wrote "The Leatherstocking Tales"
James Fenimore Cooper
Natty Bumppo is a character in tales by what author?
James Fenimore Cooper
This character is known by European settlers as "Leatherstocking," and by the Native Americans as "Pathfinder," "Deerslayer," or "Hawkeye.".
Natty Bumppo, from James Fenimore Cooper's novels.
Edna Pontellier and Robert Lebrun are characters from what novel?
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Who wrote The Awakening?
Kate Chopin
Edna thereupon returns to the seaside resort in the off-season. She makes arrangements for a lunch to take with her to the beach, and carries along a towel for drying off as well. Unable to resist the lure of the water, she swims out as far as she can and, having exhausted herself, drowns.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
"Free! Body and soul free!"
"The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin
Mrs. Millard, Josephine
"The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.
"The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin
Who wrote "Maggie, a Girl of the Streets"?
Stephen Crane
As the novel opens, Jimmie, a young boy, is leading a street fight against a troop of youngsters from another part of New York City's impoverished Bowery neighborhood. Jimmie is rescued by Pete, a teenager who seems to be a casual acquaintance of his. They encounter Jimmie's offhandedly brutal father, who brings Jimmie home, where we are introduced to his timid older sister Maggie and little brother Tommie, and to Mary, the family's drunken, vicious matriarch.
"Maggie, a Girl of the Streets" by Stephen Crane
This is a story about a hotel in Nebraska which sits near the rail raod tracks. Essentially, it is the tale of a Swede who, upon arriving, thinks that he is in the old West and comports himself as such, which causes conflict, ultimately leading to the Swede's death in a bar fight.
"The Blue Hotel," Stephen Crane
Leaving her rural Wisconsin home, 18 year-old Caroline Meeber heads for Chicago, Illinois , where she wants to live with her older sister's family. Soon, however, Carrie finds out that working in a sweatshop and living in a squalid and overcrowded apartment is not what she wants. When she meets a man named Drouet, a travelling salesman whose acquaintance she already made on the train to Chicago, she readily leaves behind her family—they never see her again—when he offers to look after her.
"Sister Carrie," Theodore Drieser
Minnie Hanson, Mr. Hurstwood, Mr. Druet
"Sister Carrie," Theodore Drieser
the story of a young man Clyde Griffiths, whose troubles with women and the law take him from his religious upbringing in Kansas City to the fictional town of Lycurgus, New York. Among Clyde's love interests are the materialistic Hortense Briggs, the charming farmer's daughter Roberta Alden and the aristocratic Sondra Finchley.
"An American Tragedy," Theodore Drieser
a seaman pressed into service aboard the HMS Bellipotent in the year 1797, when the British Navy was reeling from two major mutinies and was threatened by Napoleon's military ambitions
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
___, suffused with innocence, openness, and natural charisma, is adored by the crew, but for unexplainable reasons arouses the antagonism of the ship's Master-at-Arms, John Claggart, who falsely accuses ___ of conspiracy to mutiny
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
____'s final words are, "God bless Captain Vere!"
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
"First, Turkey; second, Nippers; third, Ginger Nut,"
"Bartleby, the Scrivener," Herman Melville
In 1861, she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl under the pseudonym Linda Brent.
Harriet Jacobs
Much of this book is devoted to the protagonist's struggle to free her two children (born out of wedlock through a consensual relationship with a white man who wasn't her master), after she runs away herself. She spends seven years trapped in a tiny space built into her grandmother's barn to occasionally see and hear the voices of her children.
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," by Harriet Jacobs
Characters Roger Chillingworth (the husband) and
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale (the lover) are from which novel?
"The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The frame narrative for this is called "The Custom House"
"The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hepzibah Pyncheon
Maule, Phoebe, Holgrave, Clifford Pyncheon
The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Miles Coverdale
Hollingsworth
Zenobia
Priscilla
Blithedale Farm (based on Brook Farm)
The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Journal "The Dial"
Transcendentalist periodical
Who wrote "Nature," "Poet," and "Self-Reliance"?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The final lines in the essay are, "Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love,--there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble."
"Poet," by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
from "Self-Reliance," by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wrote Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
A seminal African-American poet in the late 19th and early 20th century. Gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
This essay criticizes America for its "mighty, many-threaded wealth and industry" that mask an underlying "dry and flat Sahara" of soul. He calls for a new kind of literature to revive the American population ("Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does").
"Democratic Vistas," by Walt Whitman
Who wrote "The Song of Hiawatha," "Paul Revere's Ride" and "Evangeline"?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,"
"Evangeline," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis."
"Song of Hiawatha," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who wrote "The Ambassadors"?
Henry James
Who wrote The Beast in the Jungle?
Henry James
Who wrote The Golden Bowl?
Henry James
Who wrote The Portrait of a Lady?
Henry James
Who wrote Daisy Miller?
Henry James
Who wrote "The Aspern Papers"?
Henry James
Who wrote "The Turn of the Screw"?
Henry James
Mr. Lambert Strether is from Woollett, Massachusetts and he has come to Europe at the request of his employer, Mrs. Newsome. Mrs. Newsome's son, Chad, has been in Paris for a long time and the Newsomes are worried that Chad will never return home.
The Ambassadors, by Henry James
John Marcher, the protagonist, is re-aquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret- Marcher is seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event,
"The Beast in the Jungle," Henry James
Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie, an innocent abroad. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, an alabaster beauty with brains, no money, and a practical and romantic nature, is his lover.
"The Golden Bowl," by Henry James
First published in 1881. It is the story of a young female American, Isabel Archer, who inherits a large amount of money, which left her to the Machiavellan schemings of two European expatriates. Set mostly in Europe, notably Italy.
A Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
A novella about the unsuccessful attempts of the biographer of a famous and long-dead poet (Jeffrey Aspern) to secure some papers from the poet’s aged former mistress and her homely daughter. It is set in Venice. The protagonist encourages the daughter’s growing infatuation with him in order to get the papers.
The Aspern Papers, Henry James
This novella deals with the eponymous American girl and her courtship by Winterbourne, both of whom are expatriates in Italy and Switzerland. She is overly flirtatious and dies a tragic death.
Daisy Miller, by Henry James
The girl, Flora, is living at his country home where she is cared for by the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. Shortly thereafter, the boy, Miles, turns up after being expelled from his school.
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
Who wrote the essay "The Art of Fiction"?
Henry James
Nick Carraway is the narrator of what novel?
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
It features the characters Charlie Wales and Helen Wales. It is the story of a father’s attempt to regain the custody of his daughter after recovering from the death of his wife and his own alcoholism.
"Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a wealthy and attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and has a series of romances.
"This Side of Paradise," by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients.
"Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The main characters are Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley. Barnes suffered an injury during World War I that makes him unable to consummate his relationship with Brett sexually.
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the use of explosives, he is given an assignment to blow up a bridge to accompany a simultaneous attack on the city of Segovia.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
It tells the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army during World War I. Henry falls in love with the English nurse Catherine Barkley. After he is wounded at the front by a trench mortar shell, she tends to him in the hospital during his recuperation, and their relationship develops.
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas
"My Ántonia," by Willa Cather
Who wrote "My Ántonia"?
Willa Cather
It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory.
Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
Who wrote "Death Comes for the Archbishop"?
Willa Cather
"I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.”
Quentin, from The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
Where does the title The Sound and the Fury come from?
Macbeth's soliloquy in act 5, scene 5 of Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing..."
The third plot strand tells the story of Reverend Gail Hightower. He is obsessed by the past adventures of his Confederate grandfather, who was killed while stealing a few chickens from a farmer's shed.
from A Light in August, by William Faulkner
Who wrote "A Rose for Emily"?
William Faulkner
"We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door."
from "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner
Who wrote "The House of Mirth"?
Edith Wharton
It is centered around Lily Bart, a New York socialite who attempts to secure a husband and a place in affluent society.
"The House of Mirth," by Edith Wharton
In the novel, infidelity is explored as the title character wishes to feel vibrant and young again. His wife, Zenobia (nicknamed Zeena), is a hypochondriac and has led herself to believe that she is going to die. Her relatives send for her cousin, Mattie Silver, who needs work as she has been left penniless and an orphan.
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
The novel is set in the middle and upper classes of 1870s Old New York. Newland Archer, a lawyer set to enter into a marriage with the naïve but beautiful May Welland, must re-consider his choice with the intrusion of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin.
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
Who wrote "old ironsides" and "the chambered nautilus"?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Late 19th, early 20th century critic, most famous for his editorial support of authors like Mark Twain, Thorstein Veblen and Henry James.
William Dean Howells
Much of his poetry, such as "Chicago", focused on Chicago, Illinois, where he spent time as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News. His most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."
Carl Sandburg
"Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation."
from "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg
"THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on."
"The Fog" by Carl Sandburg
"Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain..."
"The Author to Her Book," Anne Bradstreet
"It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master / though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster."
"One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop`
Who wrote "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
Ezra Pound
who wrote "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly"?
Ezra Pound
"An octopus / of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat"
An Octopus, by Marianne Moore
Who wrote "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"?
Lawrence Sterne
"I WISH either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing; -- that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind"
from "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy," by Lawrence Sterne
What novel features characters Walter and Toby?
"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy," by Lawrence Sterne
"Throughout the lengthy book, the author openly mocks the moral rigidity of fashionable writers and critics while simultaneously acknowledging the frailties of his characters and celebrating their good natures."
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
Sophia Western
Blifil
Squire Allworthy
Lady Bridget
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
Fielding's 1741 "An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews" parodies what novel?
Samuel Richardson's "Pamela or Virtue Rewarded" (1740)
"An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money. In the former case, it is well known that the entertainer provides what fare he pleases; and though this should be very indifferent, and utterly disagreeable to the taste of his company, they must not find any fault; nay, on the contrary, good breeding forces them outwardly to approve and to commend whatever is set before them."
from Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones"
What year was Robinson Crusoe written?
1719
____ _____ (1722), a picaresque first-person narration of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th century England. She appears as a whore, bigamist and thief, lives in The Mint, commits adultery and incest, yet manages to keep the reader's sympathy.
Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
Who wrote "Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded"?
Samuel Richardson, in 1740.
Who wrote "Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady"?
Samuel Richardson in 1748.
____ is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become very wealthy only in recent years and is now eager to become part of the aristocracy by acquiring estates and titles through advantageous pairings. She is forced by relatives to marry a rich but heartless man against her will and, more importantly, against her own sense of virtue. Desperate to remain free, she allows a young gentleman of her acquaintance, Lovelace, to scare her into escaping with him. However, she refuses to marry him, longing — unusually for a girl in her time — to live by herself in peace. Lovelace, in the meantime, has been trying to arrange a fake marriage all along, and considers it a sport to add Clarissa to his long list of conquests. However, as he is more and more impressed by Clarissa, he finds it difficult to keep convincing himself that truly virtuous women do not exist. The continuous pressure he finds himself under, combined with his growing passion for Clarissa, forces him to extremes and eventually he rapes her. She manages to escape from him, but remains dangerously ill
"Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady" by Samuel Richardson, 1748.
What was the first gothic novel?
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, 1764.
In _____'s books, the hero is usually a gentleman of noble birth, likely as not in some sort of disgrace; the heroine, an orphan-heiress, high-strung and sensitive, and highly susceptible to music and poetry and to nature in its most romantic moods. A prominent role is given to the tyrant-villain. He is a man of fierce and morose passions obsessed by the love of power and riches. The villain can usually be counted on to confine the heroine in the haunted wing of a castle because she refuses to marry someone she hates. Whatever the details, Mrs. Radcliffe generally manages the plot and action so that the chief impression is a sense of the young heroine's incessant danger.
Anne Radcliffe
Vincentio di Vivaldi, Ellena Rosalba, the mysterious monk Schedoni
The Italian, by Anne Radcliffe
Montoni, Emily
The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Anne Radcliffe
Who wrote "The Mysteries of Udolpho"?
Anne Radcliffe
Where _______ always provides a natural explanation for ostensibly supernatural phenomena, ______ revels in the use of the supernatural as a plot device.
Anne Radcliffe; M.G. Lewis
concerns itself with the career of the Capuchin monk Ambrosio, an apparent orphan who has been brought up under the care of his monastic order to become a charismatic preacher, idolised by the population of Madrid. At the start of the narrative Ambrosio is a model of piety, but he proves to be a very brittle character who only too easily succumbs to the temptations of the devil. The devil's chosen instrument is the young monk Rosario, soon revealed to be a female in disguise (and then later a demon). As Matilda she seduces Ambrosio and becomes his accomplice in the career of sin that he proceeds to embark upon. Even before the seduction Ambrosio reveals himself to be motivated less by piety than pride and vanity, and in the first instance of the narrative's obsession with perverted sexuality, expresses erotic longings towards a painting of the Virgin Mary (which turns out to be a likeness of Matilda).
"The Monk," by M.G. Lewis
Catherine Morland, the Allens, Henry Tilney, and John Thorpe.
"Northanger Abbey," by Jane Austen
_____ follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Catherine is in Bath for the first time. There she meets her friends such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rather rough-mannered, slovenly John Thorpe, and by her real love interest, Henry Tilney. She also becomes friends with Eleanor Tilney, Henry's younger sister. Henry captivates her with his view on novels and his knowledge of history and the world. General Tilney (Henry and Eleanor's father) invites Catherine to visit their estate, which, from her reading of Ann Radcliffe's gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, she expects to be dark, ancient and full of Gothic horrors and fantastical mystery.
Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
was an English political and miscellaneous writer, considered one of the important precursors of both utilitarian and liberal anarchist thought. He is also famous for the women in his life: he married the early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and together with her had one daughter, also named Mary, author of Frankenstein, whom he brought up on such strict principles of rational enlightenment that her only possible rebellion was to elope at sixteen with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
William Godwin
Who wrote "Things as They Are, or the Adventures of Caleb Williams"?
William Godwin
" It is now known to philosophers that the spirit and character of government intrudes itself into every rank of society. But this is a truth highly worthy to be communicated to persons whom books of philosophy and science are never likely to reach. Accordingly it was proposed in the invention of the following work, to comprehend, as far as the progressive nature of a single story would allow, a general review of the modes of domestic and unrecorded despotism, by which man becomes the destroyer of man."
from "Things as They Are, or the Adventures of Caleb Williams," by William Godwin
_____, the title character, is abandoned by her father, Sir John Belmont, who thought that he would receive a fortune from marriage. Her mother dies in childbirth, and she is raised in seclusion by Mr. Villars, her guardian. When ____ grows up to be a beautiful and intelligent woman, she travels to London to visit a friend, Mrs. Mirvan. She is introduced to society, falls in love with the handsome Lord Orville. However, her ill-bred relatives, and in particular her vulgar grandmother, Madame Duval, as well as the obstinate attentions of Sir Clement Willoughby frustrate her happiness. To attain her proper station in London society, ____'s friends contact Sir Belmont to get him to acknowledge his daughter. Belmont announces that, in fact, he has had his daughter with him since her mother's death. It turns out that the nurse had passed her own child to Sir Belmont. Belmont discovers the imposition, recognizes _____, and she marries Lord Orville.
Evelina, by Fanny Burney, 1778
Who wrote Cecilia in 1782 and Camilla in 1796?
Fanny Burney
Written in epistolary form, _____ portrays the English upper middle class from the perspective of a seventeen-year-old woman who has reached marriageable age. A comic and witty novel, the work is ultimately a satire of the kind of oppressive masculine values that shaped a young woman’s life in the eighteenth century, as well as of other forms of social hypocrisy. Encyclopædia Britannica describes _____ as a "landmark in the development of the novel of manners”
Evelina, by Frances Burney
The central character, Dorothea Brooke, is a beautiful and serious-minded young woman who yearns for knowledge and the power to help others. She rejects a titled young man in favour of the Reverend Edward Casaubon, a middle-aged clergyman who, she imagines, will teach her and engage her in great works. Her marriage proves a terrible mistake, as Casaubon disdains her efforts to assist him in his research, and Dorothea begins to realize the meanness of his intellectual ambitions. Meanwhile, she makes the acquaintance of his poor relation, Will Ladislaw, who truly admires her and who matches her in passion and ambition.
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Virginia Woolf described ______ as "one of the few English novels written for grown up people".
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
_______ was a weaver and had been since a young man. While living in this industrial town, he was also a highly thought of member of a little dissenting church. He was engaged to be married to a female member of the church and thought his future happiness assured. However, due to the betrayal of a fellow parishioner, who blamed him for a theft that he did not commit, he was expelled from the congregation. He found out later that his former fiancee married the man who had betrayed him. Later on, he went to settle in the village of Raveloe, where he lived as a recluse who existed only for work and his precious hoard of money until that money was stolen by a son of Squire Cass, the town's leading land owner, causing him to become heartbroken. Soon, however, an orphaned child came to Raveloe.
Silas Marner, by George Eliot
_____ _____ is a young workman of twenty-six in the town of Hayslope in Loamshire. He is the foreman of a carpentry shop where his brother, Seth, also works. The novel opens in the workshop with an argument among the men about religion. We learn that Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher with whom Seth is in love, will speak in the village that evening.

Seth goes to the prayer meeting and afterwards proposes to Dinah, who refuses him. Meanwhile, Adam has gone home and found out from his mother, Lisbeth, that his father, Thias, has gone off drinking instead of finishing a coffin he had contracted for. Working all night, Adam finishes the coffin, and he and Seth deliver it in the morning. On their way home, they find the drowned body of their father in a brook.
Adam Bede, by George Eliot
Who wrote "The Egoist" in 1879?
George Meredith
Who is later called "Trotwood"?
David Copperfield, from the Dickens novel.
Mr. ____ travels with his friends, Mr. Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr. Tracy Tupman, and their adventures are the chief theme of the novel.
The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens
The plot concerns a long-running legal dispute (Jarndyce and Jarndyce) which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. The author's assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk. His harsh characterization of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave voice to widespread frustration with the system, helping to set the stage for its eventual reform in the 1870s.
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
Esther Summerson — an orphan

Caddy Jellyby — a friend of Esther
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
The lengthy novel centres around the life and adventures of ____ ______, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. His Uncle Ralph, who thinks ______ will never amount to anything, plays the role of an antagonist.

The tone of the work is burlesque, with Dickens taking aim at what he perceives to be social injustices. Many memorable characters are introduced, including ______' malevolent uncle Ralph, and the villainous Wackford Squeers, who operates a squalid boarding school at which _______ temporarily serves as a tutor.
Nicholas Nickelby, by Charles Dickens
The lengthy novel centres around the life and adventures of ____ ______, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. His Uncle Ralph, who thinks ______ will never amount to anything, plays the role of an antagonist.

The tone of the work is burlesque, with Dickens taking aim at what he perceives to be social injustices. Many memorable characters are introduced, including ______' malevolent uncle Ralph, and the villainous Wackford Squeers, who operates a squalid boarding school at which _______ temporarily serves as a tutor.
Nicholas Nickelby, by Charles Dickens
Set in the fictitious Victorian industrial town of Coketown
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
Set in the fictitious Victorian industrial town of Coketown
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
The lengthy novel centres around the life and adventures of ____ ______, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. His Uncle Ralph, who thinks ______ will never amount to anything, plays the role of an antagonist.

The tone of the work is burlesque, with Dickens taking aim at what he perceives to be social injustices. Many memorable characters are introduced, including ______' malevolent uncle Ralph, and the villainous Wackford Squeers, who operates a squalid boarding school at which _______ temporarily serves as a tutor.
Nicholas Nickelby, by Charles Dickens
Tom Gradgrind, Josiah Bounderby, Louisa Gradgrind/Bounderby, Stephen Blackpool
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
Tom Gradgrind, Josiah Bounderby, Louisa Gradgrind/Bounderby, Stephen Blackpool
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
Set in the fictitious Victorian industrial town of Coketown
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
Fagin, Bill Sikes, The Artful Dodger, Noah Claypole, Mr. Brownlow
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Fagin, Bill Sikes, The Artful Dodger, Noah Claypole, Mr. Brownlow
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Tom Gradgrind, Josiah Bounderby, Louisa Gradgrind/Bounderby, Stephen Blackpool
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
Fagin, Bill Sikes, The Artful Dodger, Noah Claypole, Mr. Brownlow
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents the diminishment of religious outlook from a Calvinistic approach, which is presented as harsh. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published, it was accepted as part of the general revulsion against Victorianism.
"The Way of All Flesh," 1903
Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents the diminishment of religious outlook from a Calvinistic approach, which is presented as harsh. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published, it was accepted as part of the general revulsion against Victorianism.
"The Way of All Flesh," 1903
Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents the diminishment of religious outlook from a Calvinistic approach, which is presented as harsh. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published, it was accepted as part of the general revulsion against Victorianism.
"The Way of All Flesh," 1903
______ ______ is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.
Wuthering Heights
tells the tale of Catherine and Heathcliff, their all-encompassing love for one another, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them both. Social tensions prevent their union, leading Heathcliff to shun and abuse society. The plot is given here in detail, as the book's narration is at times non-linear.
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
The story is narrated by a character named Lockwood, who is renting a house from Heathcliff. The house, Thrushcross Grange, is close to Wuthering Heights.
Much of the action itself is narrated to Lockwood during his illness by the housekeeper of Thrushcross Grange, Nelly Dean. Lockwood's arrival is after much of the story has already happened - but his story is interwoven with Dean's.
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
Marianne Dashwood
Elinor Dashwood
Lucy Steel
John Willoughby
Colonel Brandon
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Bennet
Fitzwilliam Darcy
Chrles Bingley
George Wickham`
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Sir Walter
Elizabeth Elliot
Anne Elliot
Frederick Wentworth
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
Who wrote "Tess of the d'Ubervilles"?
Thomas Hardy
Under the influence of alcohol, Michael Henchard, a young hay-trusser, sells his wife and daughter in a country fair to a sailor. Once sober, he swears never to touch liquor again.
The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy
The novel is often thought of as Thomas Hardy's best work, not only for the elaborate structuring of the plot, where small and subtle details lead to the character's ruin, but in the themes of the book. Such themes include how human loneliness and sensuality can stop a person from trying to fulfill his dreams; how, when free from the trap of marriage, one's dreams will not be fulfilled if one is of a lower status; how the educated classes are often more like sophists than intellectuals; how living a libertine life full of integrity and passion will be condemned as scandalous in conservative society; and how religion is nothing but a mistaken sense that the tragedies that wear down an individual are the result of having sinned against a higher being.
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
The child leaves a pathetically misspelled note that reads: Done because we are too menny.
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
After shunning the first man to love her, the shepherd Gabriel Oak, Bethesda Everdene is courted by two others: the lonely and repressed farmer Boldwood, and the charming but faithless Sergeant Troy. The role of fate is clearly established, with each twist and turn in the book being more luck than the choice of one of the characters.
Far from the Maddening Crowd, by Thomas Hardy (1874)
Who wrote Vanity Fair?
William Thackeray
"Vanity Fair"'s title comes from what book?
John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"
The story opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young ladies, where we meet the main characters, Becky Sharp, a strong-willed and cunning young woman determined to make her way in society, and Amelia Sedley, a good natured though simple-minded young girl. The book accompanies Becky and Amelia's life through happy times and sorrowful days between London, Brighton, the countryside and the Battle of Waterloo.
"Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray
Becky resumed her seduction of Joseph Sedley and gained control over him. He eventually died of a suspicious ailment after signing a portion of his money to Becky as life insurance. It is hinted that she may have murdered him to make her fortune.
"Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray
After shunning the first man to love her, the shepherd Gabriel Oak, Bethesda Everdene is courted by two others: the lonely and repressed farmer Boldwood, and the charming but faithless Sergeant Troy. The role of fate is clearly established, with each twist and turn in the book being more luck than the choice of one of the characters.
Far from the Maddening Crowd, by Thomas Hardy (1874)
Who wrote Vanity Fair?
William Thackeray
"Vanity Fair"'s title comes from what book?
John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"
The story opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young ladies, where we meet the main characters, Becky Sharp, a strong-willed and cunning young woman determined to make her way in society, and Amelia Sedley, a good natured though simple-minded young girl. The book accompanies Becky and Amelia's life through happy times and sorrowful days between London, Brighton, the countryside and the Battle of Waterloo.
"Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray
Becky resumed her seduction of Joseph Sedley and gained control over him. He eventually died of a suspicious ailment after signing a portion of his money to Becky as life insurance. It is hinted that she may have murdered him to make her fortune.
"Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray
______ ______'s first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her remaining novels are Cranford (1853), North and South (1855), and Wives and Daughters (1865). She was a friend of Charles Dickens, and wrote the first biography of Charlotte Brontë, which played a significant role in developing her fellow writer's reputation..
Elizabeth Gaskell
Who invented the term "pathetic fallacy"?
John Rushkin
In literary criticism, the ______ _____ is the description of inanimate natural objects in a manner that endows them with human emotions, thoughts, sensations, and feelings.
Pathetic Fallacy
"The stars will awaken / Though the moon sleep a full hour later" (Percy Bysshe Shelley) is an example of what literary fallacy?
The "pathetic fallacy," first coined by John Rushkin
Who wrote "On Liberty" and "The Subjection of Women"?
John Stuart Mill
Who wrote Sartor Resartus?
Thomas Carlyle
Blumine
Dumbdrudge
Hofrath Heuschrecke
Weissnichtwo
from Sartor Resartus, by Thomas Carlyle
purported to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (which translates as 'god-born devil-shite'), author of a tome entitled "Clothes: their Origin and Influence." Teufelsdröckh's Transcendentalist musings are mulled over by a skeptical English editor who also provides fragmentary biographical material on the philosopher.
Sartor Resartus, by Thomas Carlyle
the common factor that binds them together is their use of direct and colloquial language expressive of a highly individual personality, and their enjoyment of the casual, the amateur, the affectionate poem written by the way.
the Cavalier Poets
They avoid the subject of religion, apart from making one or two graceful speeches. They attempt no plumbing of the depths of the soul. For them life is far too enjoyable for much of it to be spent sweating over verses in a study. The poems must be written in the intervals of living, and are celebratory of things that are much livelier than mere philosophy or art. To put it in a nutshell, the Mistress in no longer an impossibly chaste Goddess to be wooed with sighs, but a woman who may be spoken to in a forthright fashion.
the Cavalier Poets
Ben Jonson
Robert Herrick
Edward Herbert
Thomas Carew
James Shirley
Mildmay Fane
Edmund Waller
Sir John Suckling
Richard Lovelace
Abraham Cowley
Henry Vaughan
the Cavalier Poets
Who wrote “An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John Donne”?
Thomas Carew
CAN we not force from widow'd poetry,
Now thou art dead, great Donne, one elegy,
To crown thy hearse ? Why yet did we not trust,
Though with unkneaded dough-baked prose, thy dust,
from “An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John Donne," Thomas Carew
I on thy grave this epitaph incise:—
Here lies a king that ruled, as he thought fit,
The universal monarchy of wit ;
Here lies two flamens, and both those the best :
Apollo's first, at last the true God's priest.
from “An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John Donne," by Thomas Carew