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U.S. History – Early 19 th Century Art, Literature, and Language

U.S. History – Early 19 th Century Art, Literature, and Language. Objective 2.02. Objective 2.02. Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature, and language. Authors. Noah Webster.

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U.S. History – Early 19 th Century Art, Literature, and Language

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  1. U.S. History – Early 19th Century Art, Literature, and Language Objective 2.02

  2. Objective 2.02 • Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature, and language.

  3. Authors

  4. Noah Webster • Editor of Webster’s Dictionary, standardized English language in U.S.

  5. Washington Irving • NY author – first American author appreciated by Europeans (1783 – 1859) • Knickerbocker’s History of New York • Also…

  6. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  7. Rip Van Winkle

  8. Edgar Allen Poe • First American author to write horror stories (1808 – 1849) • Wrote…

  9. The Raven

  10. The Telltale Heart

  11. Nathaniel Hawthorne • Early American (New England) author who promoted Puritan values and ethics (1804 – 1864) • Wrote…

  12. The Scarlet Letter

  13. James Fenimore Cooper • Early American author who helped establish an American literary tradition and American nationalism (1789 – 1851) • Wrote…

  14. Last of the Mohicans

  15. Deerslayer

  16. Transcendentalism • A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.

  17. Ralph Waldo Emerson • Early American Transcendentalist writer, promoted a simple life based on truth found in nature, personal emotion, and imagination. (1803 – 1882) - Nature

  18. Henry David Thoreau • Early American transcendentalist author (Walden), practiced early form of civil disobedience. (1817 – 1862)

  19. Walden

  20. Civil Disobedience

  21. Foreign Observer in the U.S.? • Alexis de Tocqueville • French writer who expanded the idea of American democracy and advocated prison reform in America – Democracy in America

  22. Democracy in America • Explained American Democracy from a foreign observer’s point of view

  23. Neoclassical Architecture • American attempt to copy Roman and Greek styles of architecture

  24. New Nationalists/Knickerbocker School

  25. Hudson River School of Artists • Early American artists who depicted the natural and seemingly boundless wonders of the new American landscape – a distinctly American style • Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, William Sidney Mount

  26. Thomas Cole – Mount Edna from Taomina, 1843

  27. Frederic Edwin Church - Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy, 1852

  28. Asher B. Durand - View Toward the Hudson Valley, 1851

  29. Albert Bierstadt - In the Mountains, 1867

  30. John Frederick Kensett – Niagara Falls, 1855

  31. David Johnson - Study, Franconia Mountains from West Campton, New Hampshire, c. 1861-63

  32. Robert S. Duncanson - Recollections of Italy, 1864 

  33. John William Casilear - Lake George, 1860

  34. Thomas Cole – Kaaterskill Falls, 1826

  35. Asher Durand – Black Mountain from the Harbor Islands, Lake George, NY – 1875

  36. Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire, The Savage State, 1834

  37. Thomas Cole – Last of the Mohicans

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