Ages, Eras, & Time Periods
Era of rapid industrialized expansion and the creation of wide income disparity
What is the Gilded Age?
An approach to literature that focuses on form and structure
What is formalism?
Term represented by this image
What is the "New Woman"?
Poe’s idea that everything in a text impacts its emotional effect
What is the unity of effect?
Concept of the separation of church and state
What is Secularism?
Law requiring Northerners to return escaped slaves back to the South
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Genre that plays on the contrast between two different cultures
What is the captivity narrative?
Reformist Christians of England that opposed Anglican Church
Who are Puritans?
Theory created by this scholar
What is Intersectionality?
The social or cultural trends prevalent at a particular time
What is the zeitgeist?
“Before the war”
What is the Antebellum Era?
Movement depicted by this meme
What is Transcendentalism?
Resettlement of communities and culture in non-African geographies
What is the African diaspora?
For Freud, this idea involves “the return of the repressed”
What is the uncanny?
The internal world of a story
What is diegetic?
The American era of 1620-1776
What is the Colonial Era?
The reason why you’re depressed after studying American Literature
What is Dark Romanticism?
Belief system that says humans are damned; there’s nothing we can do about it
What is Calvinism?
Theory that deals with capitalism, reformation and religious belief
Idea represented by this gif
What is print culture?
Time period depicted by this gif
What is The Great Awakening?
A trope of this genre includes the opener “I was born…”
What is the slave narrative?
The book jacket version of an author
What is the authorial persona?
This idea’s scholar is Arthur Schopenhauer
What is Philosophical Pessimism?
Example = “dead man walking”
What is prolepsis?