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Romanticism Transcendentalism and realism/regionalism

Romanticism Transcendentalism and realism/regionalism. Romanticism. 1800-1860. Genres and Style of Romanticism. Character sketches Slave narratives Poetry Short stories. Effects and Aspects of Romanticism. Value feeling and intuition over reasoning

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Romanticism Transcendentalism and realism/regionalism

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  1. RomanticismTranscendentalismand realism/regionalism

  2. Romanticism • 1800-1860

  3. Genres and Style of Romanticism • Character sketches • Slave narratives • Poetry • Short stories

  4. Effects and Aspects of Romanticism • Value feeling and intuition over reasoning • Journey away from corruption of civilization and limits of rational thought toward the integrity of nature and freedom of the imagination

  5. Historical Context • Expansion of magazines, newspapers, and book publishing • Slavery debates • Industrial revolution brings ideas that the old ways of doing things are now irrelevant

  6. Authors and Titles • Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” • Dunbar’s “We Wear the Masks” • Emily Dickinson • Walt Whitman

  7. American Renaissance/Transcendentalism • 1840 – 1860 • Note the overlap in time period with Romanticism. Some consider the transcendentalists to be the dark romantics or gothics

  8. Genres and Style of Am. Renaissance/Transcendentalism • Poetry • Novels • Anti-transcendentalists • Holds readers’ attention through dread of a series of terrible possibilities • Feature landscapes of dark forests, extreme vegetation, concealed ruins with horrific rooms, depressed characters

  9. Effects and Aspects of Transcendentalists • True reality is spiritual • Comes from the 18th century philosopher of Immanuel Kant • Idealists • Self reliance and individualism • Emerson and Thoreau

  10. Effects and Aspects of Anti-Transcendentalism • Used symbolism to great effect • Sin, pain, and evil exist • Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville

  11. Historical Context • Portrayal of alluring antagonists whose evil characteristics appeal to one’s sense of awe • Stories of the persecuted young girl forced apart from her true love • People seeking beauty in life and in nature, a belief in true love and contentment

  12. Authors and Titles • Poems, aphorisms, and essays of Thoreau and Emerson • Edgar Allen Poe • Nathaniel Hawthorne*

  13. Realism and Regionalism • 1855 – 1900 • Civil War period and post Civil War

  14. Styles and Genres • Novels and short stories • Objective narrator • Does not tell reader how to interpret the story • Voices from around the country • Local color stories

  15. Effects and Affects • Social realism seeks to change a social problem • Aesthetic realism: art that insists on detailing the world as one sees it

  16. Historical Context • Civil War brings demand for a truer type of literature that does not idealize people or places

  17. Authors and Titles • Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (some say it is the first American novel) • Ambrose Bierce • Stephen Crane • The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass • Jack London

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