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Romantic Period Terms
Terms and Concepts Exam 1
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Undergraduate 2
01/23/2009

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Special relationship
Definition
America/ Great Britain (Churchill)
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transaltanticism
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The cross over between the two nations. Narrows the gap of the ocean to show that there are many similarities and influences on each other.
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Anglophone Culture
Definition
English speaking/shared
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providence
Definition
Bradstreet. The hand of God is in all things. Hand in your daily life
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fatalism
Definition
Bradford. Fate- God's will.
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exceptionalism
Definition
Winthrop. Nation is better than other nations. Pride.
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meritocracy
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Crevecour. Get what you earn.
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plain style
Definition
Bradford, Wordsworth, Bradstreet. Candid, didactic and accessible.
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typology
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characteristic of Puritans. connections with former concept to bring understanding to the new concept. Looking into scriptures and applying to daily life.
Type in a shadow
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indenture
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A contract agreeing to give up freedom for a set number of years.
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weaned affection
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Bradstreet. Weaned from material things because of love for God. Providence.
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acculturation
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removed from old and put yourself in new culture. Face the other. Make yourself subject to risk but then realize that it preserves you.
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The Enlightenment
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Rebirth, thought, defined by contradictions, Newton and Locke. Turn from religion to science and philosophy.
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noble savage
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Rowlandson. "good indian"- fascination with natural state of man unaffected by society. good, helpful, respected but not equal.
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abolitiomism
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anti-slavery. Equiano, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (deleted part).
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ameliorationism
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accepts the humanity of slaves, asks to treat them better but not as radical as abolitionism. (ex: Tom in Mr. Anderson).
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sensationalism
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Burke, description of what happened to Queen. Very sensory images. Learn through personal experience.
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didacticism
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preachy. ex: Sinners In Hands of An Angry God (Jonathan Edwards).
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sensibility
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refined moral feeling; true good people are in tune with emotions; swooning; connected to virtue.
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tabula rasa
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blank slate theory. Experience determines everything.
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Junto
Definition
Franklin's group. Philosophical "religion" book club.
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errata
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Franklin. Latin word for printing errors. Franklin called his sins errata to take out any religious connotation.
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The Great Awakening
Definition
Bring religion back. Religious movement.
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Jeremiad
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sermon; lamenting over a falling away or an apostasy with an underlying call to return. Ex: Sinners in Hands of an Angry God.
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Triangular Trade
Definition
Europe sends finished products to Africa.
Africa sends slaves to US.
US sends raw materials to Europe.
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Middle Passage
Definition
Africa to US (Triangular trade)
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captivity narrative
Definition
Rowlandson, Equiano, Kimber
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slave narrative
Definition
Equiano
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there and back story
Definition
Go to America, get money, go home (back to Europe). (Mr. Anderson)
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Romance tales
Definition
Before Robinson Crusoe; poison minds of children; considered trashy with no moral lesson.
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Neoclassicism
Definition
Reason, Classical Education, Imitation, Outward Gaze, Satire, Art, Refinement, Rules-heroic couplet, Conservative
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Romanticism
Definition
Emotion, Sensibility, Common experience, Originality, Interiority "I", Sincerity, Spontaneity, Organic Form, Radical
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Inspiration
Definition
comes in reflective moods, spontaneously
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Romantic "I"
Definition
write about themselves, introspective. not concerned with outside world.
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spontaneity
Definition
random overflow of emotions
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Poet-prophet
Definition
Blake. (America a Prophecy). Declares himself a prophet- speaks in prophetic tone. Exceptionalism. ?
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the sublime
Definition
rugged, dark, vast, invokes fear and self preservation (more powerful than the beautiful). Burke introduced but poems by Coleridge (Mariner, Kubla Khan).
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organic form
Definition
form matches the message.
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illuminated engraving
Definition
etches poem, acid fades away, hand paint with water colors. (original, creative..)
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pantisocracy
Definition
ideal community in America- unrealistic idea. Work for a few hours and then philosophize all day. (Coleridge and Southey).
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heroic couplet
Definition
used in Neoclassicism; epic, every 2 lines rhyme, 10 beat lines.
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satire
Definition
used by Blake and Paine
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pastoral
Definition
story moves from elegant, high class civilization to the woods.
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ballad
Definition
repetitive, story-poem, singsongy, short lines. (We are Seven, Rime of the Mariner..)
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Lyric
Definition
short, natural, completative
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ode
Definition
elaborate, lyrical verse, Usually structured in three parts. (Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality; Coleridge)
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Sonnet
Definition
14 line poem, poses question or problem, works through it, ends with solution or answer. (Ex: The World is too much with us).
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Blank verse
Definition
easiest way to express, 10 beat lines, UNrhymed iambic pentameter, natural rhythm. (Ex: Frost at Midnight, Coleridge)
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Mystery poems
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One of the modes Coleridge often uses- uses the sublime. Dark and haunting.
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conversation poems
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Second mode that Coleridge writes in. More in touch with the "beautiful"; peaceful, reflective.
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conversation poems
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Second mode that Coleridge writes in. More in touch with the "beautiful"; peaceful, reflective.
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supernaturalism
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the supernatural; order of existence beyond the scientifically visible universe
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radicalism
Definition
one of the Romantic ideals.
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Conservatism
Definition
Burke. Neoclassicism
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deism
Definition
God is mechanic but it runs all on its own. (Franklin)
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the Lake School
Definition
Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth's school of poetry
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the man from Porlock
Definition
interrupted Coleridge inspiration. Now all poets refer to this man when they have writer's block.
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