Modernism
British Author of Tess
Who is Thomas Hardy?
A one-room cabin story
What is Thoreau's Walden?
Survival journal of Yaak Valley, MT
What is Rick Bass' Winter
A woman visits Italy, India, and Indonesia
What is Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love?
Dorothy's famous brother who also wrote nature poetry.
Who is William Wordsworth?
World War I Nineteen-year-old Poet
Who is Wilfred Owen?
Nature, sociopolitical reform, and religion
What are the main topics of transcendentalism?
Terry Tempest Williams' environmental conflict
What is the nuclear testing grounds in the southwest?
Novel of travel essays from Dalai Lama to Al Qaeda in Somalia
What is Sun After Dark by Pico Iyer?
He wrote, "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink."
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
World War I
What is a historical influence of Modernism?
A little book showing transcendentalist values
What is Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature?
Professor of philosophy at Oregon State University
Who is Kathleen Dean Moore?
Bought a villa in Tuscany
What is Frances Mayes' memoir, Under the Tuscan Sun?
Love of reverence for nature.
What is a main element of romanticism?
"Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold"
What is a line from Yeats' "The Second Coming"?
The 19th century essay that later inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"
Princeton professor and "Oranges" author
Who is John McPhee?
The most common genre of writing for travel writing.
What is creative nonfiction?
Interest in the bizarre, supernatural and gothic.
What are characteristics of romanticism?
A collection of short stories set in Ireland
What is James Joyce's The Dubliners?
A semi-autobiographical novel of the four March sisters.
What is Louisa May Alcott's Little Women?
Grew up in a Georgia junkyard
Who is nature writer Janisse Ray?
An American turned British turned American who Walk(ed) in the Woods.
Who is Bill Bryson?
Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads published in 1798.
What are the collection of poems that marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement?