western culture exam 2

Name the historical period during which Voltaire wrote.  

enlightenment

A statement that contains a truth is called a  

aphorism

What is the last name of the author who wrote about solitary girls being persecuted in picturesque surrounding before being saved and getting married.  

Radcliffe

According to Emerson, what is the product of an interaction between the soul and nature?  

art

According to Poe, the ideal subject of literary works is the death of what?

a beautiful woman

A fictional story that is written in the form of letters is called what?  

Epistolary fiction

During what historical period is fiction viewed as a transformation of the material into the symbolic?   

American renaissance

What is the common setting for the sentimental novel?

in the domestic sphere or the home

During which historical period was the idea promoted that one should tolerate people who hold religious beliefs different from one’s own?  

enlightenment

During which historical period was nature viewed as a reflection of God?  

American renaissance

Who wrote, “The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always inaccessible”  

Emerson

What is the name given to a common plot in literature in which a young woman is tempted to surrender her virginity to a man?  

seduction plot

Because of the presence of symbols in the story, “Young Goodman Brown” is an example of?

allegory

What is the term used for a woman who is flirtatious and who manipulates men with her charms?  

coquette

Which of the writers we read said It is necessary to distinguish between the business of civil government and the business of religion?

John locke

Emerson said that we should enjoy an original relationship to the what?  

universe

In the early American period, fiction had to be based on what?  

historical events

 Hawthorne’s character Aylmer in The Birth Mark can be compared to what other character that we read about?

dr faust

Which historical period is associated with disillusionment over industrializaton? 

American renaissance

 Emerson said that he was a transparent what?  

eyeball

themes of the American renaissance

rebirth, humanism, earthly life has value, focus on arts and sciences, human potential.

themes of the Enlightenment

a time of illumination, reliance on natural light of reason, people have a right to happiness and pleasure, development of mathematics and sciences, human rights, toleration.

voltaire toleration ideas

•Both natural law and human law tell us, “Do not unto others what you would that they not do unto you.” 

•Yet we say, “Monster, thou sharest not my religion, and therefore hast no religion; thou shalt be a thing of horror to thy neighbors, thy city, and thy province.” 

Locke toleration ideas

•It is necessary to distinguish between the business of civil government and the business of religion.

•We must distinguish between concern over men’s souls and concern for the country.

the excessive expression of feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia in behavior, writing, or speech

sentimentalism

values of the enlightenment

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•Individual rights

•Right to happiness and pleasure

•Toleration of others 

what is the first American novels?

the power of sympathy and coquette

main character of the coquette

Eliza Wharton

who we might see as the antagonist in the coquette

Peter sanford

the moral husband choice for Eliza

rev Boyer

what are the letters of the coquette based on?

the relationship and letters between Elizabeth Whitman and Joel Barlow

books of the American renaissance

the coquette, oval portrait, the birth mark, young good man brown, nature.

values of the American renaissance

focus on individual rights and freedoms, Celebration of the common man, Disillusionment with industrialization; devotion to the natural world, the woods, Focus on nature as a reflection of God

Emersons theory of soul, nature, and art.

soul: the individual, Nature: everything outside of the soul, Art: interaction of soul and nature.

what era did Hawthorne write in?

American renaissance

what is the birthmark about?

Alymer a alchemist wants to make his wife perfect by removing her birth mark, she dies once It is removed.

what era did Emerson write in?

American renaissance

what is nature about?

its about connecting one with nature to achieve originality with it.

what is the oval portrait about?

it is about a painter who paints his wife who dies once the painting is finished.

who wrote the oval portrait?

Edgar allen poe