Exam-Midterm Flashcards by Jesse White

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Herman Melville

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Anti-Transcendentalism

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Dealt with the question of evil

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Anti-Transcendentalism

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Believed the truths of existence are elusive

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Anti-Transcendentalism

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Characters are more important than the plot

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American Realism

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Concentration was on the middle class

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American Realism

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Henry James

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American Realism

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Mark Twain

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American Realism

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Fireside Poets

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Transcendentalism

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Emerson

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Transcendentalism

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Believed nature was a doorway to a mystical world

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Transcendentalism

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Was derived from immanuel kant

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Transcendentalism

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Transparent eyeball

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Transcendentalism

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Determinism

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Naturalism

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Things happen to people like puppets

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Naturalism

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Heavily influenced by Darwin

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Naturalism

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Developed out of realism

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Naturalism

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Nature is indifferent

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Naturalism

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Dark and uncaring

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Anti-transcendentalism

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Deals with raw and unpleasant experiences

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Naturalism

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Known for Portrait of the Lady

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Henry James

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Changed the spelling of his last name to avoid guilt

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who wrote The Open Boat

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Stephen Crane

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Endorsed grape juice

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Jack London

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Wrote a thousand words a day

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Jack London

Who is credited with establishing naturalism

Stephen Crane

Wrote the Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

Who wrote Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

Cited for bravery 15 times during the Civil War

Ambrose Bierce

Banished in Mexico in 1913

Ambrose Bierce

Wrote Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Avid abolitionist

Ralph Emerson

Famous quote “to be great is to be misunderstood”

Emerson

Jailed because he wouldn't pay taxes

Thoreau

Wrote Walden

Thoreau

Follower of Emerson

Thoreau

Wrote Billy Budd

Herman Melville

Wrote The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Who was Samuel Clemens

Mark Twain

Died at 28

Stephen Crane