Final Exam 2nd Quarter
American Literature1. The writers we read this quarter include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville. All these writers are are representative of the Romantic period.
Explain what “romanticism” means, when applied to 19th Century literature, and then discuss how Thoreau’s Walden and Melville’s Moby Dick may both be considered romantic texts even though they are quite unlike each other in many ways.
2. This course focuses on the relationship between literature and particular times and places. Using illustrations from at least three of the writers you have read this quarter, explain how literature responds to or is shaped by political, social, economic, or geographical events and realities.
3. Religion shaped the worldview of many of the writers we have read. Discuss changes in the religious understanding of of at least two writers during the Romantic Period as compared with at least one writer before the Romantic Period.
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