LITR 4232 American Renaissance 2012
Student Midterm Samples

#2. Short essay (4-6 paragraphs) on 1 of 2 options
option 2a. Highlight and analyze
passage from readings		 option 2b. Favorite term, objective, concept
+ apply to 1-2 readings

Jennifer Hamilton, "Who Am I?"

Velma Laborde,
"The Woman of Sleepy Hollow"

Dorothy Noyes,
"Men Without Names: Poe's Byronic Heroes"

Andy Feith, "The Scaffolding of Romance"

Kat Henderson, "Dark and Light: Two Faces of the Sublime"

Valerie Mead, "Sublime Transcendental Gothicism" (excerpt)

Victoria Narcisse, "Sublime: The Beautiful, the Terrifying, and the Ridiculous"

Ashley Rhodes, "The Real Romanticism" (excerpt)