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AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

AMERICAN RENAISSANCE. The Romantic Period (1800-1870). The American Scene. 1803 Louisiana Purchase—westward expansion Transportation—canals, turnpikes, railroads, steamboats Gold Rush of 1849 Advancement in Technology—factories, steel plow and reaper, telegraph Competition for wealth

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AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

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  1. AMERICAN RENAISSANCE The Romantic Period (1800-1870)

  2. The American Scene • 1803 Louisiana Purchase—westward expansion • Transportation—canals, turnpikes, railroads, steamboats • Gold Rush of 1849 • Advancement in Technology—factories, steel plow and reaper, telegraph • Competition for wealth • Increase in democratic principles • PROGRESS!

  3. What Romanticism IS • 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

  4. Characteristics of Romanticism • Increasing emphasis on individual • Nationalism on the rise • Mood of Optimism • Intellectual curiosity • Religious spirit • Desire to escape the routine • Increase in population and immigration

  5. Characteristics of Romanticism • Value feeling over reason • Power of the imagination • Shun artificiality of civilization • Seeks unspoiled NATURE!!! • Interest in unusual and mysterious • Contemplates nature’s beauty as path to spiritual and moral development

  6. Winds of Change • Child labor and unsafe conditions • Women’s right’s • Native American removal—1838 “Trail of Tears” • War with Mexico • Slavery

  7. Types of Writing • Novels • Poetry • Essays and…… • SHORT STORIES!!!!!!!!!!

  8. American Masters • Washington Irving: American mythology (folklore)—setting in American landscape • Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau: sublimity of nature and personal connection • Walt Whitman: merged his all encompassing self with the nation • Emily Dickinson: explored universal qualities of landscape

  9. American Gothic • Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville: Dark side of the wilderness • Known as anti-transcendentalists • Explored conflicts between good and evil, psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness!

  10. Subject Matter • Quest for beauty • NATURE! • Source of knowledge • Refuge • Revelation of GOD to the individual

  11. Techniques • Remoteness of setting—time and place • Improbable plots • Unlikely or inadequate characterization • Harmful morality—world of lies!

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