Test 2 Eras Flashcards
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Known for religion science and morality great expansion of industry
British empire cove 1/2 the world
Death of sir Walter Scott
Coronation of victoria
Great exhibition
Darwins origin of species
Death of victoria
Britain
Marxism and realism
Victorian period
Authors viewed themselves as moral teachers
Victorian
Realism
Reflects moral earnestness
Victorrian
Themes: progress of society
Validity of Christian faith
Men’s relationship with God
Genres. Poetry essays novels
Victorian
Realism ( writing techniques) accurately depiction of life
American realist
Who said truthful treatment of material
William dean howells
Emphasized common ordinary
Concerned with emediate
Clear direct language
Novels short stores
Realism
Basic premise there is a spiritual knowledge beyond the physical world
Transcendentalism
How can you discover spiritual knowledge
By Chung with over-soul
Through constancy with nature
By listening to own intuition
- God is in all of nature (pantheism).
- Man has a spark of divinity.
- Man should rely on himself, not Bible or authority.
- Man intuitively knows truth.
- Man should live close to nature/commune with it.
• Loves isolation.
• Advocated simple lifestyles.
Tenets of transcendelism
Theme of Walden
Simplify life
The radical poet of transcendelism
Walt Whitman
Authors of the British Victorian era
Alfred lord Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett browning
Robert browning
Christina Rossetti
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mathew Arnold
Thomas hardy
William Ernest Henley
Mark twain
Kate Chopin
Mary e Wilkins
Authors of American realism
Ambrose Bierce
O Henry
Authors from American romantic age
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Fredrick Douglas:
Emily Dickinson
Author of Ulysses
Alfred lord Tennyson
Author of the charge of the light brigade
Tennyson
Author of the sonnet form the Portuguese
Elizabeth browning
Author of my last duchess
Robert browning
Author of a birthday
Christina rosetti
Remember
Christina Rossetti
Gods grandeur
Gerard m Hopkins
