final exam notes
“American Romanticism” Final Review Guide
Format (subject to relatively small changes):
• 15 fill-in-the-blank questions on authors, texts, key terms, key characters, key plot events. Some of these may come directly from the quizzes. (1 point each)
• 5 short answer questions (3 points each)
• 4 out of 5 passage IDs and Explanation (1 point for title and author; 4 points for explanation)
• 1 long essay , chosen from 3 prompts (10 points)
Texts and Images to Review:
Expect this test to be especially heavy on works from the second half of the semester!
• Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire sequence, The Oxbow, Katerskill Falls
• William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” and “An Indian at the Burial Place of His Fathers”
• Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” “I Hear America Singing,” “Song of Myself”
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “The Earth’s Holocaust”
• Hiram Powers’ Eve Tempted and The Greek Slave
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, “Self-Reliance”
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden and “Resistance to Civil Government”
• Herman Melville, from “The Encantadas,” “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “The Tartarus of Maids,” Moby-Dick
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven”
• Margaret Fuller, from Women in the Nineteenth Century
• Fanny Fern selections in anthology
• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Sojourner Truth, two versions of “Ain’t I a Woman?”
• Orestes Brownson, “The Labouring Classes”
• Rebecca Harding Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills”
• Emily Dickinson, “” (poems covered by Professor Bradley)
Topics to Review • The sublime
• The uncanny
• Romantic ideas about nature
• Romantic ideas about Native Americans
• Romanticism’s critique of Enlightenment
• Romantic ideas about children
• Romantic critique of science
• Pantheism/Deism
• Calvinist and Unitarian views on human
Format (subject to relatively small changes):
• 15 fill-in-the-blank questions on authors, texts, key terms, key characters, key plot events. Some of these may come directly from the quizzes. (1 point each)
• 5 short answer questions (3 points each)
• 4 out of 5 passage IDs and Explanation (1 point for title and author; 4 points for explanation)
• 1 long essay , chosen from 3 prompts (10 points)
Texts and Images to Review:
Expect this test to be especially heavy on works from the second half of the semester!
• Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire sequence, The Oxbow, Katerskill Falls
• William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” and “An Indian at the Burial Place of His Fathers”
• Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” “I Hear America Singing,” “Song of Myself”
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “The Earth’s Holocaust”
• Hiram Powers’ Eve Tempted and The Greek Slave
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, “Self-Reliance”
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden and “Resistance to Civil Government”
• Herman Melville, from “The Encantadas,” “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “The Tartarus of Maids,” Moby-Dick
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven”
• Margaret Fuller, from Women in the Nineteenth Century
• Fanny Fern selections in anthology
• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Sojourner Truth, two versions of “Ain’t I a Woman?”
• Orestes Brownson, “The Labouring Classes”
• Rebecca Harding Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills”
• Emily Dickinson, “” (poems covered by Professor Bradley)
Topics to Review • The sublime
• The uncanny
• Romantic ideas about nature
• Romantic ideas about Native Americans
• Romanticism’s critique of Enlightenment
• Romantic ideas about children
• Romantic critique of science
• Pantheism/Deism
• Calvinist and Unitarian views on human