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American Romanticism

American Romanticism. 1800 - 1860. Historical Background. Optimism Successful revolt against English rule Room to grow Frontier Vast expanse Freedom No geographic limitations. Historical Background. Experimentation Science Social institutions Immigration Industrialization

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American Romanticism

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  1. AmericanRomanticism 1800 - 1860

  2. Historical Background • Optimism • Successful revolt against English rule • Room to grow • Frontier • Vast expanse • Freedom • No geographic limitations

  3. Historical Background • Experimentation • Science • Social institutions • Immigration • Industrialization • Differences between North and South grow (agricultural v. industrial economies)

  4. Characteristics The Five I’s Imagination Intuition Idealism Inspiration Individuality

  5. Subject Matter • Quest for beauty • Escape from daily troubles • Journey to freedom, represented in nature as opposed to the oppressive city • Use of far-away, imaginative settings • Supernatural, myth, legend & folklore

  6. Literary Techniques • Remote settings • Improbable plots • Experimentation in new forms of writing

  7. Romantic Authors • WashingtonIrving • Rip Van Winkle • Nathaniel Hawthorne • The Scarlet Letter

  8. Sub-Movements of Romanticism • Gothicism • Edgar Allan Poe • The Fall of the House of Usher • The Raven • Nathaniel Hawthorne • The Minister’s Black Veil

  9. Sub-Movements of Romanticism • Transcendentalism • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature • Self-Reliance • Henry David Thoreau • Walden • Resistance to Civil Government

  10. Romantic Poets • William Cullen Bryant • Thanatopsis • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls • The Cross of Snow • Oliver Wendell Holmes • TheChamberedNautilus

  11. Romantic Poets • Emily Dickinson • Heart! We will forget him! • Some keep the Sabbath going to Church • Tell all the Truth but tell it slant • Walt Whitman • I Hear America Singing • Song of Myself

  12. The Arts Romanticism was a movement across all the arts: visual art, music, and literature. All of the arts embraced themes prevalent in the Middle Ages: chivalry, courtly love. Shakespeare came back into vogue.

  13. Visual Arts: Examples Romantic Art Neoclassical Art

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