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Women in american literature
review for midterm of american writers
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
10/24/2007

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Anne Bradstreet

Definition
The Prologue
In Honor of queen elizabeth
the author to her book
to my dear and loving husband
Meditations devine and moral
here follows some verses upon the burning of our house
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Phyllis Wheatley
Definition
On Being Brought from Africa to America
To the Right Honorable William
To S.M., An African Painter, on seeing his Works
To His Excellency George Washington
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Sojourner Truth
Definition
Ain't I a Woman?
What Time of Night Is It?
Keeping things going while things are stirring
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Margaret Fuller
Definition
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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Emily Dickinson
Definition
Wild Nights- wild Nights
I felt a funeral in my brain
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
The Soul selects Her own Society
Before I got my eye put Out
What Soft- Cherubic Creatures
This is my letter to the world
They shut me up in Prose
I'm ceded- I've stopped being theirs
Publication- Is the auction
Because I could not stop for death
she rose to His Requirement- dropt
My life has stood a loaded gun
rearrange a "Wife's" affection
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Definition
The Yellow Wallpaper
         Characters: John, Weir Mitchell, Unamed Narrator
The Unnatural Mother
         Characters: Esther, Father, women telling storey, duaghter of storey women
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Anias Nin
Definition
Birth
         Characters: Nurses, preg lady
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Kate Chopin
Definition
The Awakening
         Characters: Edna Pontellier , Léonce Pontellier, Adèle Ratignolle,  
                          Alcée Arobin
Mademoiselle Reisz, Robert Lebrun
                          Doctor Mandelet

Athenaise
         Characters: Athenaise, Cazou, Mr. Miches, Mrs. Miches,
                         Montecline, Sylvia

The Belle Zoraide
         Characters:  Zoraide, Mazour, Mistress
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Edith Wharton
Definition
House of Mirth
         Characters: Lily Bart, Mr. Percy Gryce, Lawrence Selden,
                           Bertha Dorset, George Dorset, Simon Rosedale 
                           Aunt Julia, Gerty Farish, Gus Trenor, Judy Trenor,
                           Carry Fisher  
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Anzia Yezeirska
Definition
Bread Givers
         Characters: Sara Smolinsky, Reb Smolinsky, Shena Smolinsky,
                                   
Bessie- Berel Berenstein-- Zalmon 
                                   Mashah- Jacob Novak-- Moe Mirsky
                                   Fania- Morris Lipkin-- Abe Schmukler 
                                   Hugo Seelig, Max Goldstein, Mrs. Feinstein
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Zora Neale Hurston
Definition
Thier eyes were watching god
         Characters: Janie Mae Crawford, Tea Cake, Jody Starks, Logan Killicks, Pheoby Watson, Nanny,
Term
Themes
Anne Bradstreet
Definition
Religion, puritanism, Grace,
this life is nothing only a journey
sarcasm, using language of oppressors
self-deprication
Muse and Greek Mythology
Marriage
domesticity/ rebellion
Children
Phoenix images
Term
Themes
Phyllis Wheatly
Definition
Slavery, chains, race of americans,
Freedom
well educated
using lang of opressors: sermons, passive voice, humility
christianity
light vs. dark imagery
Term

Themes
Sojourner Truth

Definition
abolitionist
woman and african rights
orator for common folk audience
agressive speech, truthful
Emphasizes: stregnth of Woman, white vs. black women, respect women deserve, equality for work pay
biblical stories
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Themes
Margaret Fuller

Definition
Miranda Idealized self
audience is intellectual and well educated
Bisexuality- being of neither female or male completley: fluid into each
Transendentalism- self dependence
women's work- work that is undone
derogotory of female and complement of male charateristics
Greek mythology
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Themes
Emily Dickinson
Definition
Solitary, Hermit, reclusive
obsessed with death but gives no answer, death as person or friend
following societies norms and leaving these norms
sanity vs reality
prose
Style wierd sentence structure, capitals, dashes, break lines
Religion not sure about it
Love and Marriage
eyes and loosing sight
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Themes
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Definition

Rest cure
woman as child
woman as mother, giving up child
societies rules and breaking them
insanity

Term
Themes
anais Nin
Definition
Instict vs medicine
failure to create life
pain and no memory
childbirth and death
loss of self through loss of child
Term
Themes
Kate Chopin
Definition
Insanity
Motherhood
racist undertone
living for self versus living for children
motherwoman- adele raginotlle
women unhappy in marriage, infidelity
water imagery
suicide
Idenity, Independence
Artist- courageous
illusion
society rules vs. what you wnat
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Themes
Edith Warton
Definition
Illusion of society, facades, copys
real lily vs fake lily
sex value relation to use value and exchange value
economic vs cultural capital
suicide, subconcious vs. concious
Dinginess to be avoided
reversion to infancy
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Themes
Anzia Yezerska

Definition
Marriage
old world vs. new
americanization
education
weight of previous generations
Becoming  aperson by sacraficing the personal
women as objects and supporters, useless without a man
religious fanatiscm
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Themes
Zora Neale Hurston
Definition
social self vs ideal self
search for partnership and symbiotic relationship
marriage
mirror stage
facades
power of man, woman and god
idealism
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