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AMERICAN ROMATICISM

AMERICAN ROMATICISM. WHAT IS AMERICAN ROMATICISM? HOW DID IT INFLUENCE LITERATURE? HOW DID IT AFFECT OTHER ASPECTS OF LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES?. PREVIEW. 1800-1860 LITERARY AND CULTURAL MOVEMENT REVOLT AGAINST THE ENLIGHTENMENT PLACED IMPORTANCE ON EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO NATURE.

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AMERICAN ROMATICISM

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  1. AMERICAN ROMATICISM

  2. WHAT IS AMERICAN ROMATICISM? HOW DID IT INFLUENCE LITERATURE? HOW DID IT AFFECT OTHER ASPECTS OF LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES? PREVIEW

  3. 1800-1860 • LITERARY AND CULTURAL MOVEMENT • REVOLT AGAINST THE ENLIGHTENMENT • PLACED IMPORTANCE ON EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO NATURE. • RANGED FROM TREPIDATION, HORROR AND TERROR, AND AWE AND WONDER ROMANTICISM

  4. ROMANTICISM • IMAGINATION • INTUITION • SPONTANEITY • INDIVIDUALISM • “HEROIC ISOLATION” • PSYCHOLOGY • SUPERNATURAL

  5. ROMANTICISM • OPTIMISM AND INDIVIDUALISM • WORLD IS ALWAYS IMPROVING • ORDINARY PEOPLE CAN BETTER THEMSELVES, THEIR POLITICAL SYSTEM AND SOCIETY

  6. ROMANTICISM • KINSHIP WITH NATURE • A CLOSE LINK BETWEEN HUMANS AND NATURE • INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY THREATENED THE NATURAL WORLD AND ISOLATED PEOPLE FROM IT

  7. ROMANTICISM • POWER OF DARKNESS • FASCINATION WITH DISEASE, MADNESS, DEATH, EVIL, THE SUPERNATURAL • HIGHLIGHTS THE DESTRUCTIVE ASPECTS OF NATURE

  8. ARRIVAL OF EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM • OUTBURST OF REFORM MOVEMENTS • SPREAD OF INDUSTRY • INCREASING SECTIONAL CONFLICT WHAT FORCES SHAPED THIS PERIOD?

  9. RALPH WALDO EMERSON • CENTRAL FIGURE OF AMERICAN ROMANTICISM • REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS: • INDIVIDUALISM • CLAIMS ABOUT THE DIVINE • ATTACKS ON SOCIETY

  10. RALPH WALDO EMERSON • 1803-1882 • FATHER UNITARIAN MINISTER AND MOTHER A DEVOUT ANGLICAN • FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS 8-YEARS-OLD AND MOTHER OPENED A BOARDING HOUSE TO SUPPORT FAMILY

  11. RALPH WALDO EMERSON • ENTERED HARVARD AT 14-YEARS-OLD • STUDIED AT HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL • ORDAINED MINISTER BY 1829

  12. RALPH WALDO EMERSON • IN 1831, WIFE ELLEN TUCKER DIED SUDDENLY • SHOOK HIS ALREADY QUESTIONING FAITH • LEFT THE CHURCH TO BECOME A WRITER

  13. RALPH WALDO EMERSON • 1833 – MOVED TO CONCORD, MASS. AND STARTED WRITING NATURE. • IT WOULD BE ONE OF HIS MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS. • PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY • REMARRIED 2 YEARS LATER AND HAD 4 CHILDREN.

  14. RALPH WALDO EMERSON • GAINED FAME ON THE LECTURE CIRCUIT • THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR • HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL ADDRESS • BOTH REJECTED ORGANIZED RELIGION AND RESULTED IN A BAN FROM HARVARD FOR 30 YEARS.

  15. RALPH WALDO EMERSON • HIS IDEAS ANGERED SOME BUT EXCITED OTHERS • IDEAS HELPED CREATE THE TRANSCENDENTAL MOVEMENT • OPTIMISM, SELF-RELIANCE, INTUITION, IDEALISM

  16. RALPH WALDO EMERSON • EMERSON’S OPTIMISM WAS CHALLENGED IN 1842 WHEN SON WALDO DIED OF SCARLET FEVER • CO-FOUNDED THE DIAL, A TRANSCENDENTAL PUBLICATION • INFLUENCED MANY WRITERS OF THE TIME AND FOR YEARS LATER

  17. SPIRIT OF THE WEST

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