Minnick A House Divided and Restored Quiz

All the names and some other stuff for Adventures in American Literature textbook

What is the literary time period know as A House Divided and Restored

1860-1890

Walt Whitman

Wrote tribute to Lincoln, wrote Leaves of Grass, made connection between romantic idealism and realities of postwar. Only postwar transcendentalist.

What were new social and technological developments during this time

Samuel Morse’s telegraph, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, intercontinental railroad, alternating current for lightbulbs, population doubling, people moving to cities.

What was meant by the Gilded Age?

Twain called it the Gilded Age to show the contrast between cheap cynicism and gaudy materialism compared to the morals and values of earlier years.

What were reform movements like

Reforms were less about mental change, but to get power and influence politics and economics. Less idealism, more realism.

What literary movement contrasted Whitman’s nationalistic writing with more regional works?

The local-color movement

Who thought realism was to reflect reality without softening or idealizing its features?

Henry James

Who thought that the job of a writer supposed to be about making a perfectly accurate report of what he saw

William Dean Howells

Realism was the shift from human _________ to human _________

possibilities; actualities

Who was the Western writer who wrote about mining camps with an emphasis on his local-color, romanticized, gentleman gamblers and rough-spoken miners?

Bret Harte

Who was the foremost poet of the Confederacy?

Henry Timrod

Who succeeded Timrod and focused on moving regional concerns into mainstream American literature and culture?

Sidney Lanier

What was the prominent southern literary form of this time?

Humorous story, or sketch

Why did southern humorous writing fail to last a long time

It was too violent, not very funny, and too rowdy

Who was the southern writer who wrote about dialect stories and animal fables?

Joel Chandler Harris

What two southern writers made stories of local manners and customs

George Washington Cable and Kate Chopin

What was Mark Twain’s first famous writing

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Who were writers in the southern renaissance

Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner (the greatest southern writer).

Who made the common sense Down East sketches

Seba Smith

Who were the famous New England, local-color writers (all women)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett.

Who wrote about the dark, ironic, suppression of women?

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Who also used irony in local color writings on the coast of Maine

Sarah Orne Jewett

What northern artist also used sharp psychological precision like Jewett

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Why was San Francisco the literary frontier

Many people were interested in the far-away stories of the west, the gold rush, and land

Who were the two best writers on the literary frontier in the west?

Bret Harte and Ambrose Bierce

What was the style Mark Twain used in his writing

Vernacular style - Writing using words exactly as the locals say them

Who was the greatest American realist novelist

Henry James