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The Romantic Period (1800-1870)
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
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1803 Louisiana Purchase—westward expansionTransportation—canals, turnpikes, railroads,
steamboatsGold Rush of 1849Advancement in Technology—factories, steel
plow and reaper, telegraphCompetition for wealthIncrease in democratic
principlesPROGRESS!
The American Scene
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Romanticism is the name for the literary period that follows the Age of Reason (The Revolutionary Period) in America that emphasizes creativity, imagination, and emotion
What Romanticism IS
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Increasing emphasis on individualNationalism on the riseMood of OptimismIntellectual curiosityReligious spiritDesire to escape the routineIncrease in population and
immigration
Characteristics of Romanticism
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Characteristics of RomanticismValue feeling over
reasonPower of the
imaginationShun artificiality of
civilization
Seeks unspoiled NATURE!!!
Interest in unusual and mysterious
Contemplates nature’s beauty as path to spiritual and moral development
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Winds of ChangeChild labor and unsafe conditionsWomen’s right’sNative American removal—1838 “Trail of
Tears”War with MexicoSlavery
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NovelsPoetryEssays
and……SHORT STORIES!!!!!!!!!!
Types of Writing
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Washington Irving: American mythology (folklore)—setting in American landscape
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau: sublimity of nature and personal connectionWalt Whitman: merged his all
encompassing self with the nationEmily Dickinson: explored universal
qualities of landscape
American Masters
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Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville: Dark side of the wilderness
Known as anti-transcendentalistsExplored conflicts between good and evil,
psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness!
American Gothic
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Quest for beautyNATURE!
Source of knowledgeRefugeRevelation of GOD to the individual
Subject Matter
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Remoteness of setting—time and place
Improbable plotsUnlikely or inadequate
characterizationHarmful morality—world of lies!
Techniques
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