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American Romanticism

American Romanticism. 1800 – 1860. Romanticism is the name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason. It developed in part as a response to rationalism, with its grimy cities and terrible working conditions

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American Romanticism

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  1. American Romanticism 1800 – 1860

  2. Romanticism is the name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason. • It developed in part as a response to rationalism, with its grimy cities and terrible working conditions • To the Romantics, imagination, individual feelings, and wild nature were of greater value than reason, logic, and cultivation.

  3. The Romantic Hero • The rationalist hero was worldly, educated, sophisticated, and bent on making a place for himself in civilization. • But the romantic hero is young, innocent, has a sense of honor based on some higher principle (not on society’s rules), loves nature, and quests for some higher truth in the natural world

  4. Romantic Hero? Yes or No?

  5. Romantic Hero? Yes or No?

  6. Romantic Hero? Yes or No?

  7. “The greater part of what my neighbor calls good I believe in my soul to be evil, and if I repent of anything, it is likely to be my good behavior.” –Thoreau • “Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which hears, however measured or far away.” -Thoreau

  8. “Trust thyself.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

  9. Fireside Poets • Included • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • John Greenleaf Whittier • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Russell Lowell Used typical English themes, meter, and imagery

  10. Transcendentalists • Transcendentalism- the idea that in determining the ultimate reality of God, the universe, the self, and other important matters, one must transcend, or go beyond, everyday human experience in the physical world • Transcendentalists believed in human perfectibility • Very optimistic

  11. Dark Romantics • Also valued intuition over reason and logic and saw signs and symbols in all events. • Did not think that all of nature was “good” or “harmless.” • Common themes: • Conflict between good and evil • Psychological effects of guilt and sin • Madness in the human psyche

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