Presentations

Heather is linking Regionalism, Transcendentalism, and Realism to talk about how Fuller links each of the other texts back to her own text and ideas. The growth in the women show what Fuller is trying to convey in her text.

Kristi is talking about how the influences of their foil leads the main characters to stray from the constraints of society of their times.

Meredith is linking local color and Transcendentalism. She is using the American Scholar as her cornerstone. She is going to be talking about man thinking, and what man thinking shouldn’t be. She’s also going to talk about the authors and how they relate to their texts.

Michael is going to use the Gothic and Dark Romanticism. He will talk about their reactions to different societies. He’s going to compare these genres to their predecessors. He’s going to talk about how these texts would have been written if these genres would never have existed. His sources discuss how different elements changed from one to the other. He is going to give some historical background on each genre as a whole. He’s going to try to shorten it down a bit.

Jenel is linking Transcendentalism using Emerson’s circles, and The Transcendentalist, with Dark Romanticism. She’s talking about how they are creating new ideas and challenging new ideas. She is using Fuller in her argument to show how a person can break those barriers. Dark Romanticism is man looking inside of himself and is the opposite of Transcendentalism.

Deb is talking about the Civil War Era and linking together texts like Chesnut, Whitman, and My Contraband. She is saying that the war shaped the writing and the topics of these texts.

Caitlin is talking about the British and American societies and connecting local color with regionalism. She’s going to use Hardy, James, Fuller, and Freeman to discuss feminism and naturalism.

Sara is linking together The Gothic, Naturalism, and Realist texts to talk about how each text has elements of each other within the different groups. She is going to use Zola as her cornerstone and talk about the experiment in Brown’s text as well as in Dorian Grey.