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Transatlantic Lit Test 1
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Undergraduate 2
09/16/2011

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1490s
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Europeans encounter the New World
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1607
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First English Settlement at Jamestown
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1610/11
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Shakespeare, The Tempest
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1620
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First English Settlement at Plymouth
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1630
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First arrival of Puritans (Massachusetts Bay)
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1650
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The Tenth Muse (Anne Bradstreet)
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1675
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Rowlandson's captivity
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1730s
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Great Awakening begins
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1740
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Richardson, Pamela
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1754
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Kimber, Mr Anderson
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1776
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Declaration of Independence
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1789
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French Revolution Begins
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1789
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Equiano, Interesting Narrative
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1789
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U.S. Constitution Ratified
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1790
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Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Man
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1791
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Paine, The Rights of Man
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1792
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Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
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1793
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War Begins between Britain and France
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1794
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Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience
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1798
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Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
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1800
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Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (2nd Ed.)
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John Smith
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Wrote Description of New England - leader at Jamestown
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William Bradford
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Wrote Plymouth Plantation - coined term Pilgrim for his people (plain style, fatalism)
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John Winthrop
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Puritan - not separatist, Wrote A Model of Christian Charity, Governor of Mass. Bay
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Anne Bradstreet
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Wrote Upon the Burning of Our House and other poems -1st American Poet - Puritan - had doubts and overcame them to trust in God
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Plain Style
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Puritans and Pilgrims - not elaborated, about the truth - simply stated
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Mary Rowlandson
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Wrote A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration - the best of the "Indian Captivities"
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Edward Kimber
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Wrote Mr. Anderson - one of the earliest Novels (sentimental realism - meant to teach moral - absorbs literary forms)
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Johnathan Edwards
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Wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - puritan preacher - highly emotional writing style - Jeremiad
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Phyllis Wheatly
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Female black poet - wrote "On being brought to america" and "To General Washington" about being grateful for captivity because she became christian
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Benjamin Franklin
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Autobiography - type of american Manhood - the american dream, diest, errota - laces narrative with own aphorisms rather than scripture
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Thomas Jefferson
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Wrote 1st draft of the Declaration of Independence
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Hector de Crevecoeur
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Wrote Letters from an American Farmer - French, Tory sympathies - didn't publish essays less sympathetic to America
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Olaudah Equiano
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Wrote The Interesting Narrative - May not have been born in African - educated and European cultured
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Edmund Burke
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Wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France - statement of British Conservatism - argues for tradition against radicalism - he supported American Revolution
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Thomas Paine
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Important Propagandist for American Revolution - Wrote The Rights of Man
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Wrote "a Vindication of the Rights of Man" and "... of Women" - of Man was published less than a month after Burke's Reflections
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William Blake
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Wrote "Songs of Innocence and Experience"
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William Wordsworth
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Wrote "Tintern Abbey" "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" etc. - Critic and Poet
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Brilliant, captivating speaker - wrote "Kubla Khan" "Pantisocracy" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Transatlanticism
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"Special Relationship"...
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Anglophone culture
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Providence
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The protective care of God, God's will
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meritocracy
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a place where people succeed according to skill, rather than given rank - Jamestown
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typology
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indenture
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weaned affection
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Bradstreet - weaned affection to temporal things or to God? I'm not sure of meaning
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acculturation
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Indians becoming european, europeans becoming like indians - adapting to and becoming part of surrounding culture
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the Enlightenment
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Noble Savage
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? like Squanto - helps europeans, acts european in ways - still savage but more refined?
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sensationalism
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sinners, Mr Anderson - extreme emotion...
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sensibility
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acuteness of feeling - emotional and physically manifest - marker of class, merit
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tabulu rasa
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Junto
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? Together... joined...?
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Erratum/Errata
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Printing errors - Frankin uses calls his mistakes "errata"
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The Great Awakening
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Period of religious "awakening" - people were really into religion, it was dramatized
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jeremiad
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a story that depicts the state of mankind as fallen, needing to be saved
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the triangular trade
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Slave trade?
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Captivity Narrative
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I get what this is, but what is the significance?
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slave narrative
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Narrative from point of view of slaves. Significance?
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romance tales
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came before novels - not possible, contains supernatural
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The novel
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realism... early novels were sentimental and didactic - meant to teach us christian feelings
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neoclassicism
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Romanticism
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So much goes into this... review notes and slides
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imagination
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beyond the basic definition, what do I need to know?
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inspiration
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Romantic "I"
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organic form
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illuminated engraving
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heroic couplet
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couplet in iambic pentameter?
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pastoral
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ballad
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lyric
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ode
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