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Hucklberry Finn

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3Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

  • Biographical Dates
  • Born in Florida Missouri in November 30, 1835
  1. Occupations
  1. Printers apprentice
  2. Steamboat pilot
  3. Confederate army member
  4. Miner
  5. Timber man
  6. Journalist
  7. Lecturer
  8. Wandering spirit

Literally Development

Early – Gentle satire

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Semester I Review

Puritans (1600-1700s)

Authors:

  • William Bradford
  • Jonathan Edwards

Desired religious freedom – Theocracy

  • Considered themselves Modern Israelites
  • Wanted to create “City on a Hill”

Characteristics

  • Historical accounts/journals
  • Sermons

Key concepts

  • Continents first “Non-Conformists”
  • Journals show:
  • Habit of self-security
  • Torment of “total depravity” – John Calvin
  • Writings reveal a sadness about differences:
  • Ideal vs real
  • Utopian vs. actual
  • Hard work ---- Success ------ Salvation?
  • Success/hardships = allegory for God’s blessings/chastisements

Age of Reason

Authors

  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Thomas Paine
  • Patrick Henry

Shift in thinking from Puritans

  • Humans are bodies with souls and intellects
  • Focus is on humanity’s capacity for reason

Characteristics

  • Searching for political freedom
  • Content/ideas more important than style

Subjects Areas/ Themes

  • Creating an American “Identity”
  • Self-Made Man
  • Self-Improvement/improvement of society
  • Man has improved himself

Romanticism

Authors

  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Washington Irving
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shift in thinking from Age of Reason

  • Humanity is minds, bodies and souls with imagination
  • Focus is on humanity’s creativity

Characteristics

  • Begin using symbols
  • Sets stage for Transcendentalism:
  • Fascination with individual experience
  • Fascination with mystery of nature

Subjects Areas/ Themes

  • Examines moral psychology/man’s dark side
  • Complexity of man and nature

Transcendentalism (mid 1800s)

Authors

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Extension of Romanticism
  • Meaning in life transcends (goes beyond) the physical world – we are part of “Over soul”
  • Rebelled against limits on individuality
  • Knowledge exists at birth and via institution

Valued

  • Inward, spiritual promptings
  • Private relation between man and universe

Believed

  • All have access to divine inspiration
  • Each man is an expression of God
  • Nature is a hieroglyph of spiritual world  
  • Power of self-reliance

Realism and Naturalism

Authors

  • Mark Twain
  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Stephen Craine

Shift in thinking from Romanticism

  • Imagination is not as powerful as reality
  • Focus is on revealing “truth” via verisimilitude

Characteristics

  • Use of mimesis/ Natural Vernacular
  • Character more important than plot

Subject Areas/ Themes

  • Man is a victim of forces outside his control
  • Life is grim / hard
  • Poverty and Corruption
  • Cruelty and futility of War

Realist Poets

Authors

  • Emily Dickenson
  • Walt Whitman

Characteristics

  • Use of common “every day” objects / subjects
  • Figurative language

Subject Areas/ Themes

  • The joy of living
  • The timelessness of death
  • Examination of individual feelings within the outer world
  • Presence of the Transcendental

Whitman:  Social/Public/Lengthy

Dickenson:  Private/Personal/Meditative

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