Patriotic Gore - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This book’s introduction criticizes American activity in the Cold War by comparing mankind to cannibalistic sea slugs from a Disney documentary. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this book that includes chapters analyzing the diaries of Kate Stone and Mary Chesnut. This 1962 book of literary criticism also examines Miss Ravenel’s Conversion by J. W. de Forest.

ANSWER: Patriotic Gore

[10e] Edmund Wilson’s book Patriotic Gore explores the literature of this conflict, such as Leaves of Grass and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

ANSWER: Civil War [or American Civil War]

[10m] In the chapter on Miss Ravenel’s Conversion, Wilson also discusses de Forest’s essay in The Nation, in which he coined this term. A controversial Time magazine cover associated Jonathan Franzen with this concept.

ANSWER: Great American Novel [or GAN; accept “Great American Novelist”]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	83%	17%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	11.00	100%	10%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	11.25	100%	13%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Claremont A	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	UC Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Florida B	Valencia A	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Florida State A	0	10	10	20
Winona State	Wisconsin B	10	10	0	20
Harvard B	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Dartmouth A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge E	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
UCLA	UCSD	0	10	0	10
UCF B	UCF C	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	0	10	0	10
BU	UMass Boston	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Durham	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Oxford C	LSE	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Sheffield	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Duke	0	10	10	20
Wake Forest	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
UNC B	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Virginia A	South Carolina	10	10	10	30
UNC C	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
UNC D	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Chicago D	Illinois B	0	0	0	0
Illinois C	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Missouri	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Missoui S&T	WashU A	0	10	0	10
Purdue	Georgetown B	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Georgetown A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
TAMU	ASU	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	John Jay College	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Yale A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
George Washington B	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
RIT A	ESF A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	RIT B	0	10	0	10