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American Romanticism was a period in American literature between 1828-1865 that was closely linked to Transcendentalism. The movement was characterized by principles such as the natural goodness of man, the importance of nature, individualism, the perfectibility of man, and emotion. Major American Romantic writers included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Their works explored themes of nature, the self, and individualism.
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This document summarizes the development of American Romanticism from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It discusses the rise of American Romanticism due to factors like the nation's fast development, growth of journalism, and foreign influences. The document also outlines historical background, technological advances, reform movements, characteristics of Romantic literature including transcendentalism, imaginative works, free expression of emotion, and nationalism. It concludes with the end of the Romantic period after the Civil War and emergence of realism and modernism in American literature.
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American Romanticism began in the early 1800s as a reaction against rationalism and industrialization. Romantics valued emotion, imagination, and nature over reason. They often used exotic settings or nature as an escape from reality. Early American writers developed a unique voice by using the American wilderness in their novels, like James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans. Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasized intuition and the divine in nature, while "Dark Romantics" like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe provided a darker, more balanced view that acknowledged both good and evil in humanity and nature.
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Romanticism was an international philosophical and artistic movement that emerged in the late 18th century. It valued emotion, nature, and the individual spirit over reason and social conformity. American Romanticism shared many traits with British Romanticism but differed in its emphasis on the common man as hero and on nature as a source of spirituality. Major American Romantic authors included Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. Their works explored themes of the frontier, immigration, industrialization, and a search for new spiritual roots.
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American Romanticism began in the 1820s as a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism, placing new emphasis on emotion, nature, imagination, and the supernatural. Key characteristics included an appreciation of nature's beauty, a belief in humanity's inherent goodness, and the concept of the Romantic hero as intuitive and close to nature. The movement saw works produced by early American writers like Irving, Cooper, Bryant, and Longfellow before the Civil War ended the Romantic period and ushered in Realism. Dark Romantics like Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville acknowledged humanity's capacity for evil.
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American Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement between 1800-1860 that valued emotion and nature over reason and civilization. Romantics often found truth and morality in nature rather than cities, which they saw as immoral. Major themes included romantic journeys into rural landscapes or the imagination. Writers like Edgar Allan Poe explored supernatural worlds and the imagination. The movement also emphasized individualism and finding higher truths through reflection on the natural world.
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American Romanticism between 1800-1860 valued feeling and intuition over reason, placing faith in inner experience and the imagination. It championed individual freedom and found beauty in nature, exotic locales, mythology, and the imagination. While some American Romantics had a more optimistic vision, others like Poe, Hawthorne, and Irving examined humanity's darker aspects through narratives of criminals, insanity, evil, terror and grief.
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American romanticism
American Romanticism was a literary movement that emerged in response to industrialization and emphasized emotion, nature, and the individual. Notable authors of the period included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote about transcendentalism, nationalism vs. sectionalism, and the dark side of human nature. The movement also saw the rise of popular poets like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who celebrated American culture and heritage.
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This document summarizes the development of American Romanticism from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It discusses the rise of American Romanticism due to factors like the nation's fast development, growth of journalism, and foreign influences. The document also outlines historical background, technological advances, reform movements, characteristics of Romantic literature including transcendentalism, imaginative works, free expression of emotion, and nationalism. It concludes with the end of the Romantic period after the Civil War and emergence of realism and modernism in American literature.
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American Romanticism began in the early 1800s as a reaction against rationalism and industrialization. Romantics valued emotion, imagination, and nature over reason. They often used exotic settings or nature as an escape from reality. Early American writers developed a unique voice by using the American wilderness in their novels, like James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans. Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasized intuition and the divine in nature, while "Dark Romantics" like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe provided a darker, more balanced view that acknowledged both good and evil in humanity and nature.
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American Romanticism began in the 1820s as a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism, placing new emphasis on emotion, nature, imagination, and the supernatural. Key characteristics included an appreciation of nature's beauty, a belief in humanity's inherent goodness, and the concept of the Romantic hero as intuitive and close to nature. The movement saw works produced by early American writers like Irving, Cooper, Bryant, and Longfellow before the Civil War ended the Romantic period and ushered in Realism. Dark Romantics like Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville acknowledged humanity's capacity for evil.
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American Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement between 1800-1860 that valued emotion and nature over reason and civilization. Romantics often found truth and morality in nature rather than cities, which they saw as immoral. Major themes included romantic journeys into rural landscapes or the imagination. Writers like Edgar Allan Poe explored supernatural worlds and the imagination. The movement also emphasized individualism and finding higher truths through reflection on the natural world.
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American Romanticism between 1800-1860 valued feeling and intuition over reason, placing faith in inner experience and the imagination. It championed individual freedom and found beauty in nature, exotic locales, mythology, and the imagination. While some American Romantics had a more optimistic vision, others like Poe, Hawthorne, and Irving examined humanity's darker aspects through narratives of criminals, insanity, evil, terror and grief.
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- Walt Whitman, who wrote the innovative work "Leaves of Grass" which projected himself into nature.
- Emily Dickinson, who was a solitary figure who wrote imagistic poetry exploring dark themes through nature metaphors.
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- 1. American Romanticism and time period in American Literature
- 2. American Romantic Timeframe • Timeframe – 1828-1865 – 1840-1860 – 1850-1859 • British Romanticism – 1798-1832 • Closely linked to Transcendentalism – Based on Kant and Locke
- 3. American Romantic Principles • Natural goodness of man • Nature • Individualism/Self • Perfectibility of man • Emotion
- 4. Non-Romantic Art •George Catlin
- 5. American Romantic Art •Thomas Cole
- 6. American Romantic Art •Thomas Cole
- 7. American Romantic Art •Albert Bierstadt
- 8. American Romantic Writers • Ralph Waldo Emerson • May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882 • American essayist • Philosopher • Poet • Leader of the Transcendentalist movement
- 9. American Romantic Writers •Ralph Waldo Emerson –America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination and it will not wait long for metres. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, from THE POET –Collections •Poems (1847) •Representative Men (1850) •English Traits (1856) •The Conduct of Life (1860) •May Day and Other Poems (1867) •Society and Solitude (1870) •Letters and Social Aims (1876) –Essays •"Self-Reliance" •"Compensation" •"The Over-Soul" •"The Poet" •"Experience" •"Nature" •"The American Scholar" –Poems •"Concord Hymn" •"The Rhodora"
- 10. American Romantic Authors •"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government“ – Civil Disobendience –July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 •American author •Naturalist •Tax resister •Development critic •Philosopher
- 11. American Romantic Writers •Henry David Thoreau Aulus Persius Flaccus (1840) The Service (1840) A Walk to Wachusett (1842) Paradise (to be) Regained (1843) The Landlord (1843) Sir Walter Raleigh (1844) Herald of Freedom (1844) Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845) Reform and the Reformers (1846-8) Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847) A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849) An Excursion to Canada (1853) Slavery in Massachusetts (1854) Walden (1854) A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859) The Last Days of John Brown (1860) Walking (1861) Autumnal Tints (1862) Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862) Excursions (1863) Life Without Principle (1863) Night and Moonlight (1863) The Highland Light (1864) The Maine Woods (1864) Cape Cod (1865) Letters to Various Persons (1865) A Yankee in Canada, with Anti- Slavery and Reform Papers (1866) Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881) Summer (1884) Winter (1888) Autumn (1892) Misellanies (1894) Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894) Poems of Nature (1895) Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898) The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905) Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)
- 12. American Romantic Writers •Walt Whitman – May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892 – American poet – Essayist – Journalist – Humanist •Leaves of Grass (1855)
- 13. American Romantic Writers •Nathaniel Hawthorne –July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864 –American novelist –Short story writer •The Scarlet Letter (1850)
- 14. American Romantic Writers •Edgar Allen Poe •January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 •American poet •Short story writer •Editor •Literary critic
- 15. Writers of the Time Period •Emily Dickinson –December 10, 1830– May 15, 1886 –Poet
- 16. Writers of the Time Period • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Henry David Thoreau • Walt Whitman • Emily Dickinson • Edgar Allen Poe • Herman Melville • James Fenimore Cooper
- 17. Romantic Literature Covered in Class •Whitman’s Leaves of Grass The land and sea, the animal fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes - Preface I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. - Song of Myself Themes •Nature •Self
- 18. Romantic Literature Covered in Class • Emerson’s Self-Reliance There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. – Self-Reliance A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. –Self-Reliance Themes •Individualism/Self •Nature •Perfectibility of Man
- 19. Romantic Literature Covered in Class • Thoreau’s Resistance to Civil Government He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist- Resistance to Civil Government Themes •Individualism/Self •Perfectibility of man