American Literature, Art and Music in the 1800s

1. American Literature, Art and Music in the 1800s For the first time American artists were writing, painting and singing about life in America. CA 8th Grade US History Standard 8.4.4

2. Literature • 1800’s literature illustrated daily life in early America. • Famous Authors of the 1800’s • Washington Irving wrote • Rip Van Winkle, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Sketchbook • Theme - change occurs but traditions remain • James Fenimore Cooper wrote • The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans • Theme – life on the frontier • Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote • The Scarlet Letter • Theme – morality, stigma’s, good v evil • Herman Melville wrote • Moby Dick • Theme – good v evil

3. Literature • Famous Authors of the 1800’s continued • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote • Paul Revere’s Ride • Theme – American historical events • Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote • Concord Hymn • Theme – American historical event, spirituality and transcendentalism • Henry David Thoreau wrote • Resistance to Civil Government • Theme – civil disobedience, nature, abolitionism • William Cullen Bryant wrote • Thanatopsis • Theme – natural beauty, study of nature, understand life and death

4. art • Famous Artists of the 1800’s • Hudson River School • Theme – natural wonders, landscapes of the Catskills Mountains and the Hudson River. • Established by Thomas Doughty • Artists: Thomas Cole, Asher Durand and George Caleb Bingham • Artists: George Catlin and Alfred Jacob Miller • Theme – Native American life, fur traders, riverboat workers.

5. music • Famous Musicians of the 1800’s • Stephen C. Foster • Performed musicals with American songs in large cities and log cabins using banjos and pianos. • Combined African and European music to create a uniquely American sound. • Songs: My Old Kentucky Home and Swanee River

6. architecture • Architectural Themes of the 1800’s • Public buildings were modeled on classical styles of Rome and Greece. • Private homes and plantations were modeled on the style of Greek Revival .

7. Changes in daily life in 1800’s • Industrialization - buy rather than make goods. • Increased nationalism - success in the War of 1812 led to an Era of Good Feeling. • Massachusetts and Pennsylvania started public schools. • Move from rural to urban living due to industrialization and factory jobs.