Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author of this book
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Literary movement from 1750-1870.
What is Romanticism?
Father of American Literature.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Romanticism followed this Age.
What is Reason?
Romanticism view of man.
What is an individual?
Given a lock of golden hair
Who is Topsy?
Romanticism relied on this part of the brain.
What is the imagination?
Emerson believed that Americans should have this spirit.
During Romanticism writers turned away from this.
What is politics, revolution, and government?
Romanticism view of nature.
What is symbolic, beautiful, mysterious, and God can be seen in nature?
The book Lincoln said started the American Civil War
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Romanticism idealized this aspect of the Earth.
What is nature?
Finish Emerson's line - "We will walk"
What are "with our own feet"?
In Romanticism, nature represented these.
What is beauty, mystery, and connection to God?
Romanticism view of truth.
What is intuition and gut-feeling?
Those who opposed the institution of slavery.
Who were abolitionists?
Romanticism emphasized the freedom of this.
What is expression of emotion?
Finish Emerson's line - "We will work"
What are "our own hands"?
America had more of this than Europe.
What is the frontier?
Dark Romantic authors wrote about these themes.
What is good and evil, and what are the psychological effects of guilt, sin, and madness?
Racial roles assigned to people in literature
What is a stereotype?
Romanticism is NOT just about this.
Finish Emerson's line - "We will speak"
What are "our own minds"?
Authors like Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville.
What are the Dark Romantics?
Only one more essay to write this semester after the Romanticism Bio-Poem.
What is a research essay?