ENGL121 Study Guide - Unit, Frances Harper, Phillis Wheatley

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL121
• Professor: Mark Simpson

Document Summary

Significant contribution to the discourses of sentimentality (feel towards, feel certain emotions, feeling moved by) and domesticity (hometown, local, home itself) prevalent on either side of the atlandtic this period. Romanticism a move towards expressiveness / feeling / fascination questions of nature and spiritual nature. > the rise of industrialization changes the way human beings do work and socialize. Public gendered male, private gendered female. Pilgrim - a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons) Period is 1630 feel persecuted for their religious beliefs (people being made fun of or abused bywhat they believe in ) Dramatic landscape gothic (stormy night, dark, etc) romantic (feelings expressed and dramatic effects) The pilgrims are not coming to conquer or fame, they are true hearted. Running away from religios persecution, but in a certain way. They bring lofty cheer even though they are coming as exiles. The anthem of the free -> revolution for freedom of tierny.