Final EXAM
1. (The American Dream) **Rip Van Winkle” So what’s so gothic about it? And how is religion/geography important? Vs (The American Gothic) Social Issues – Race, Religion, Gender and Sexuality, and Territorial Expansion, urban growth. SITES – the frontier, the wilderness, the city, old houses. Fred’s “The Uncanny”
2. Nature – God (pantheistic). Transparent eye-ball” (the poet). Autodidacticism, direct experience.
Words/language (poetic) = The highest means of man to achieve divine perception.
3. (Cooper) discuss Natty and Chingachgook as DOUBLES and what it says about American fronticrism.
4. ( Apess) How does Apess make use of irony to achieve his intended effect?
5. (Hawthronc) How does he Gothicizc the Puritans, considering his use of ambiguity and enigmatic objects?
6. (Poe) How docs his Gothicism/horror react against Emersonian Transcendentalism?
7. A) Abraham Lincoln b) Harriet Beecher Stone c) Harriet Jacobs d) David Walker e) Martin Dealany 0 William Llyod Garrison g) Angelina Grimke h) Sojourner Truth. Reacting to slavery particularly in light of. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 (part of the compromise of 1850).
The Supreme Court Drcd Scott vs Sanford ruling of 1857. How do each?
8. Margaret Fuler’s Transcendental ist feminism: (TIMES) The Great Lawsuit: Man vs Man. Women vs Women.
The Grand Radical Dualism. How do these works comment on a question gender?
9. (Civil Disobedience) Harry David Thorean’s “Resistance to Civil Government” The Ideal man vs. government. Taxes. Voting. Slavery and the wars with Mexico. Transcendentalism. VS (Frederick Douglass) “What to the Slave is the 4* of July?” Its rhetorical strategy. Irony is argument.
10. Herman Melville’s “Bartlcby. the Scrivener” “I would prefer not to”. The setting. Class.capitalism + modernity (from agricultural to industrial). The gothic.
11. Citing examples from her poems, discuss Dickinson’s Dark Romanticism.
12. How does both the form of Whitman’s poem and the imagery it uses reflect Emerson’s Transccndentalist call for an “American” poet?
13. How docs Davis use the Gothic toward her naturalism and muck-raking?