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25 Cards in this Set
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Realisum
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-1865 - 1900
- came from Transcendentalism - Character detail and complexity - Natural diction/narroration - Realistic |
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Naturalisum
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-1865 - 1900
- started from the French w/ Charles Darwin (expansion of Darwinisum) - similar to Realisum but with more "big twistis" and a characters fate is normaly predetermined - accurate detail |
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Transcendentalism
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- 1800 - 1865
-Quaker influence - Philosophical movment - Protest of culture - Againts socity corrupted indaviualisum |
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Romanticism
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- 1800 - 1840
- Love of Nature - Nationlisum - Revolt vs enlightenment - Art - Emotion vs Rationlisum |
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Modernisum
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- World made through perseption
- Break tradition - No such thing as truth - No indavidualisum - pretty hopless... think the lost generation |
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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- works:
-Country Of Pointed Firns -A White Heron |
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Louisa May Alcott
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- Perfectionist
- Abolitionist - Femonist -Works: -Little Women (baised off her life) -Little Men -Joe's Boys -8 Cosins - A lot of her works had meaning |
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Mark Twain
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- Travled a lot for $
- Mischiefy, humorus, a little cocky and cynical - Four kids w/ wife Olivia Langton - At 1st became jornalists - Was a river piolet at 17 - Works: -Huckleberry Finn -Tom Sawyer -Life on the Mississippi (baised on his life) |
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John Steinbeck
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-Shunned for his writings
-wrote about poor working class people -hated being famouse -Works: -Sea of Cortez -Of Mice and Men -Grapes of Rath |
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Kate Chopin
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-writing included feminisum and "hard topics"
-6 kids -was widowed and left w/debt -Traveled a lot -most of her book took place in Louisiana where she lived |
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Edith Warton
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-won pulitzer prize
-lived in Mass. + traveled a lot -was a part of WW1 -knew a lot of famouse people = was in a lot of TV shows and movies -Works: -Age of Innocence -House of Mirth |
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Jack London
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-Lived in Cali
-Socialist -Works: -Call of the Wild -White Fang -Iron Heal |
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charlotte perkins gilman
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-commited suicide as escape from incurable brest cancer
-for womens rights before blacks -Maired cosin -huge on womens rights -wrote: -Yellow Wallpaper -Herland |
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Walt Witman
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-model for Beatniks
-Gay -1st Poet of Democracy -Controversary works -involved in the civil war -pretty influenced by the Quakers -works: -Leaves of Grass -Drum Taps |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-Naturalist
-Abolitionalist -started an all girl school -wrote Nature |
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Emily Dickinson
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-Inspired by Whitman
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Henry David Thoreau
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-was a teacher
- went to Havard -anti-slavery -built a school -went to jail in 1846 -greatly influenced by/ lived w/ Emerson -Wrote: Civil Disobedience and Life in the Woods |
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Nathanial Hawthorne
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-lived in Salem, Mass. w/ mom and 2 sis
-worked at American Magazine as 1st job -Moby Dick dedication -Wrote: The Scarlett Letter and Twice Told Tails |
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Harriot Beecher Stowe
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-abolitist (meet husband that way)
-8 kids -wrote: Uncle Tom's Cabin (inspired by death of her child) |
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Edgar Allen Poe
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-Made living off souly writing
-major poet -parents died while young making him an orphan -Maired cosin -wrote: The Pit And The Pendulum and The Raven |
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Fredrick Douglas
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-Born a slave
-taught to ead by masters and also beat for it -didn't know his birthday so he made it up to be valentines day |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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-didn't write a lot of novels but the ones he did write seem to have a lot to do with love
-went to princeton -Wrote: The Great Gadspy and This Side of Paridise |
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Ernest Hemingway
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-commited suicied in 1961
-had 4 wives (seperatly) -Alchoholic -inspired by his dad and did a lot of hunting -most of his works done in Paris -skipped college to join a newspaper -wrote:The Old Man By the Sea and The Sun Also Rises |
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Gertrude Stein
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-Born in Gremany but Jewish
-Met Hitler -Knew Pacaso -4 bros, 2 sis -coined trem "Lost Generation" -Wrote: The Making of Americans and Three Lives |
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Robert Frost
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-Major poet: wrote about 180
-won 4 pulitzer prizes -Born in San Fran -Became a teacher -6 kids -Had A LOT of mental illness in his fam. -wrote: The Road Not Taken and A Witness Tree |
