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
•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