Packet 7: Tossup 7

At a recital, an author tried to prank audience members from this movement by substituting a poem he had written as a teenager titled “Al Aaraaf.” A fictional stand-in for a member of this movement wears a different tropical flower in her hair every day. Demands for morals in fiction on the part of these “Frogpondians” are mocked in a story in which they refuse to foot the funeral bill for Toby Dammit when he loses his head jumping over (10[2])a stile. A giant from this movement (-5[2])is bypassed along with landmarks like the Slough of Despond in the Pilgrim’s Progress (-5[2])parody “The Celestial Railroad.” (10[1])The Blithedale Romance (10[1])fictionalizes its (-5[1])author’s (10[1])time in this (10[1])literary movement’s community (10[2])of Brook Farm. (10[5])For 10 points, what intellectual (10[1])movement’s (10[1])proponents included The Dial editor Margaret Fuller (10[1])and “Self-Reliance” author (10[1])Ralph (10[1])Waldo Emerson? (10[2])■END■ (10[4])

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