Dr. Perdigao
HUM 2212: British and American Literature I
Fall 2012
Midterm Review
Exam: Friday, October 12
Part I-II.
In these sections, you will fill in the blanks and identify concepts and names in short responses.
The list is derived from the material covered in the readings and in the powerpoints and will
include names, titles, key concepts, and literary terms. A comprehensive list is included below:
The Romantic Period/Romanticism (1785-1832)
French Revolution
American Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Feeling and imagination
William Blake
“The Sick Rose”
“The Tyger”
Illustrator
Creation and destruction
Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
William Wordsworth
“We Are Seven”
Mortality and immortality
Innocence and experience
“The Solitary Reaper”
“London, 1802”
John Milton
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Ozymandias”
“Adonais”
Adonis
Elegy
Eulogy
Conventions of the pastoral elegy:
Invocation to a muse
Descriptions of nature’s sympathetic participation in the grieving
Description of the procession of the mourners
Final turn from despair to consolation in the discovery that the grave is the gate to a higher
existence
John Keats
“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art”
American Renaissance
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Transparent eyeball
“Thoreau”
Henry David Thoreau
“Resistance to Civil Government”
Non-conformity
Activism
Walden, or Life in the Woods
Walt Whitman
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Public versus private mourning
The Gothic
Antiquated space
castle, foreign palace, abbey, vast prison, subterranean crypt, graveyard, primeval frontier
or island, large house or theatre, aging city or urban underworld, decaying storehouse,
factory, laboratory, public building
Buried past
Anxieties about revolution, crowds, power
Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto
“first” Gothic text, claimed to be translation
Manfred
Conrad
Isabella
Grandfather’s portrait
Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Monk
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Review of The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Washington Irvin
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Christopher Walken (kidding)
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Ichabod Crane
Katrina Van Tassel
Brom Bones
Headless horseman
Pumpkin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
Reverend Hooper
Elizabeth
“The Birth-Mark”
Aylmer
Fairy’s hand
Bloody hand
Georgiana
Aminidab
Spiritual and physical
Science and faith
Elixir of Immortality
“Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Giovanni
Beatrice
Threat of female sexuality
Innocence and corruption
Beauty and terror
Good and evil
Spirit and flesh
Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven”
Lenore
Nevermore
“The Philosophy of Composition”
Denouement
Death of a beautiful woman
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
Roderick Usher
Madeline
Wall
Buried alive
“William Wilson. A Tale”
Glendinning
Mirror
Doppelganger
Uncanny: familiar and strange
Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
“Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863”
Commemoration
Emily Dickinson
479 [712] [“Because I could not stop for Death”]
600 [312] [“Her - last Poems –”]
Victorian Era (1830-1901)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Claimed to be a translation
Sonnet 43
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Buried secret
Enclosure, disclosure
Enjambment
Control
Female sexuality
Painting
Fra Pandolf
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The Lotos-Eaters”
“Ulysses”
Matthew Arnold
“Dover Beach”
Christina Rossetti
“Song”
“In an Artist’s Studio”
Part III.
In brief responses, you will identify the key quotes and discuss their significance, explaining why
they are central to the texts’ meanings.
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Impact of the Industrial Revolution, ideas about man’s relationship to nature, to society
Ideas about revolution—opportunity and crisis
Identity construction and identity crisis—race, class, gender, sexuality
Patriarchal orders—sustaining the institutions, threatening the institution, dismantling the
institution
Relationship to the past—fear of haunted spaces, nostalgic attempts to recreate the past