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Introduction To English Major

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1. Radically experimental and diverse
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Something that operates across/beyond national boundaries
Postmodernist literature
Romantic Period (Britain)

2. Invasion of Celtic Britain to the printing press
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
'Guinea Women' - Transnational/Postcolonial
Victorian Period literature
Middle Ages/Medieval Period

3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'The Cry of the Children'
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Victorian Period - Critiques factory life through the voice of child laborers
'To Penshurst' by Ben Jonson - Country house poem
Modernism

4. Westward expansion
Realism/Realistic Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
American Romantic Period - Idealistic literary movement from New England - Each person innately divine (rejects religious dogma) - Emphasized self-reliance (natural goodness of individual)
American Romantic Period

5. From death of Pope to death of Samuel Johnson
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period

6. Attempt to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Constantly read and interpret everything as signs of God's favor or punishment - Early man is full of sin - Monitoring self for signs of grace = crucial
Male-centered: rejection of Virgin Mary and family hierarchy
Romantic Period (Britain)

7. Conventions of the Augustan Age
Victorian Period literature
'Dover Beach' by Arnold
Problem with these subjective - personal epiphanies and perceptions of beauty: difficult to describe and relatively rare (here one minute - gone the next)
Heroic couplet - Balance - Parallelism - Caesuras - End-stopped lines

8. Interiority - less optimistic version of Transcendentalism
American Romantic Period
Victorian Period
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Postmodernist literature

9. What period is marked by industrialization?
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Writers respond to change through new forms and contents - Expressed both politically and artistically

10. Reign of Queen Victoria
Victorian Period
Modernism - Art = form of restoration and unification
Characteristics: Male sexual conquest and vulnerability - Extravagantly exaggerated description of the downfall of male 'pride' - Downfall = premature ejaculation and impotence 'Trembling - confused - despaired - limber - dry - A wishing - weak - un
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Characteristics: Literally - a 'seize the day' poem - Emphasizes uncertainty of life and need to live in the present - Represents a scaling back of hopes and suspicion about future - Aftermath of all the chaos of Eng

11. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Industrialization: new forms of manufacturing - driven by machines - Transformation of agriculture: land became privately owned and consolidated - New labor: new mass of workers living in mill towns to serve
Postmodernist literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Disillusionment - depression - unemployment - dissatisfaction with capitalism - Modernism

12. (Title and period)
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'
Romantic Period (Britain)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe

13. What does the form of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children' give a sense of? How?
Emily Dickinson - American Romantic Period
Modernist literature
Refrains and repetitions give sense of purpose and insistence
Romantic Period (Britain) - Artistic revolutions

14. (Title and period)
Book of Mergery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Issues of authorship = female experience and male scribe
Modernism
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau

15. Cultural response to political upheavals and the new world of constant change
Modernism
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Postmodernist literature

16. Questioning of traditional religion
20th-Century Modern Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
American Indian - Pre-Contact Lit. - Colonial Period/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)

17. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Transnational/Postcolonial literature
20th-Century Modern Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

18. Wordsworth's 'Expostulation and Reply'
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Ordinary speech - dialogue - Nature - Personal experience - Spontaneous wisdom - The imagination - Valorization of life as a mystery to be experienced - not interrogated - Virtue of doing nothing
Earnest - sincere
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

19. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
The plight of the author when dependent on patrons - Jonson flatters his patron with idealized portrait of the patron's estate - Examples: Fantasy of laborless bounty (fish and fowl offer themselves) - Happy laborers (they give to the estate's lord).
'The Second Coming' by Yeats - 20th-Century Modern Period - Images of disillusionment - everything is spiraling out of control
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

20. From the Jacksonian period to the Civil War
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
American Romantic Period

21. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Importance of reason as an essential condition of mankind - Toll of universal truths led to new thinking about gov't: Individual rights and individual liberty - Jefferson and American Constitution - Paine an
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device
Earnest - sincere
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot

22. Culmination of Enlightenment
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Books are made by hand - Culture of literate orality
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
1800-1900
Sincerity - zeal to do good - but also melancholy and despair

23. Economic - scientific and technological revolutions of daily life
20th-Century Modern Period
'The Indian Burying Ground' by Freneau
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Early Modern Period/Renaissance

24. Emphasized contemporary life in actual setting
Use of vernacular - Politicization - Historical critique
Fusing mind and nature
Realism/Realistic Period
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Questions - emotions ('wild ecstasy') - Music - celebration of youth/love - Mystery (of altar - sacrifice) - Urn/art = 'cold pastoral'

25. Subdivisions of Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Elizabethan Age - Jacobean Age - Caroline Age - Commonwealth Period/Interregnum
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
20th-Century Modern Period

26. Questioning of traditional institutions - customs - and morals (America)
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by Eliot
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.
Romantic Period (Britain)

27. Experimentation and 'stylistic unconventionality'
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Age of Reason
Postmodernist literature
Modernist literature

28. 'Put a bullet in his head'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - 20th-Century Modern Period
Lack of sentimentality (realism/naturalism)
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
'The Darkling Thrust' by Hardy

29. Avoids sentimentalism
Realism/Realistic Period
The working of misogyny - Woman = supreme object of desire AND most loathed object because she is the obstacle to masculine power and mastery - The same style - reveal 'urbanity - wit - licentiousness'
Valued Intellect - order - rationality - Enlightenment
By Geoffrey Chaucer - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Use of quyting as narrative device

30. Avant-garde
Modernist literature
1. The individual author 2. Attitude towards nature (human nature/natural world) 3. Embrace of 'wonder'
'The Weary Blues' - 'I - Too - Sing America'
'The Second Coming' - Pre-WWI

31. Interest in nature
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Importance of reason as an essential condition of mankind - Toll of universal truths led to new thinking about gov't: Individual rights and individual liberty - Jefferson and American Constitution - Paine an
Interest in imagination
1660-1785
Romantic Period (Britain)

32. Three revolutions of British Romantic Period
1. Political revolutions 2. Economic revolutions 3. Artistic revolutions
'We' of the lower classes v. Richard Cory
Romantic Period (Britain)
Victorian Period - Utilitarianism

33. Expansion into new topics - esp. graphic treatments of sexuality
Postmodernist literature
American Romantic Period
Realism/Realistic Period
Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Literature of Contact

34. Romantic rejection of reason

35. Economic revolutions (Period and characteristics)
Postmodernist literature
1660-1785
Romantic Period (Britain) Characteristics: Industrialization: new forms of manufacturing - driven by machines - Transformation of agriculture: land became privately owned and consolidated - New labor: new mass of workers living in mill towns to serve
Transnational/Postcolonial

36. Subdivisions of early American literature
Colonial Period - Revolutionary Age
Modernism
Naturalism/Realist Period
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit.

37. Rejects style of neoclassical period
Middle Ages/Medieval Period - Characteristic of literature - Canterbury Tales
Romanticism Romantic Period (Britain)
Early National Period/Early American Lit.
Victorian Period

38. Focus on technologies of stimulation
'The Lynching' by McKay
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period - Epigram
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread
Postmodernist literature

39. Why is survival such an issue in Native American literature?
1607-1800
Because of the radical decline in population of native people when Europeans came to America
A crisis of faith (faith in religion)
Romantic Period (Britain)

40. 'Beauty is truth - truth beauty'

41. Realistic details of 'Richard Cory'
Speaker needs strength due to illness
450AD-1500
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Pavement - sole of shoe - meat - bread

42. Writes devotional poetry
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period
Anne Bradstreet - Colonial Period/Early American Lit. - Introspective and humble - yet assertive
Emergence of postcolonialism - Emergence of postmodernism

43. Experiences of disintegration and disillusionment

44. What is the mood of Browning's 'The Cry of the Children'?
Earnest - sincere
Book of Margery Kempe - Middle Ages/Medieval Period - A record of middle-class female religious and social life
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - Development of the printing press
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - Self-improvement through rational design

45. Associated with prudishness/repression
Realism/Realistic Period
Age of Sensibility/Neoclassical Period
Victorian Period
A Victorian response to 20th century

46. Theaters reopened and comedy flourished
Cunning weapon
Naturalism/Realist Period
Early Modern Period/Renaissance
Restoration Period/Neoclassical Period

47. Tomato soup can
Victorian Period literature
Naturalism/Realist Period
Example of artistic incorporation of mass media images
Victorian Period

48. (Period and aftermath)
Postmodernist literature
Revolutionary Age/Early American Lit. - The reasoning self
Early Modern Period/Renaissance - (Interregnum) - - England = a mix of liberality in reaction to Puritan moral conservatism - - Monarchial/governmental conservatism in reaction to Puritan radicalism
Author = William Blake

49. Thomas Gray

50. Focus on the fight for survival in a world of urban decay
'The Darkling Thrush' - Pre-WWI
Augustan Age/Neoclassical Period
Romantic Period (Britain)
Naturalism/Realist Period