ENGLISH 45B Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - William Blake, Chicago Reader, Benjamin Franklin
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Enlightenment-----> american revolution (1751-1800): franklin, brown, blake, turner, hawthorne. All above authors are very aware of transitional period they are in . Change occurs in uneven developments with the old and new occuring at the same time. --->change/uprising in liberal democratic institutions meant for individualism. --->economic: specialization, mass commodities, trade and governance, slave trade, print technologies. --->rise of the novel and lyric poetry as most popular writing styles and reading material. English romanticism (1800s): blake, wordsworth, keath, bryon, austen. Antebellum u. s. culture: pope, emerson, whitson, melville, jacobs. Epistemology- study of how we know what we know (subjectivity, pov, bias, mediation/culture) Languages - consequences, resonances and effects of ?? (poem i didn"t read) meaning: enlightenment/light can govern an ordinary life. Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us, that nothing is great or little otherwise than comparison . (gt 2534) ---->ideologies as well as technological innovation spur enlightenment on both sides.
