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The New England Ren aiss ance 1800-1860

The New England Ren aiss ance 1800-1860. Gothic Fiction Romanticism Transcendentalism Individualism. Gothic Fiction – POE!. Mystery Suspense Horror Symbolism Edgar Allan Poe – Father of the Short Story 1809 birth in Boston, mother died in 1811, taken in by Allan family.

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The New England Ren aiss ance 1800-1860

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  1. The NewEngland Renaissance1800-1860 Gothic Fiction Romanticism Transcendentalism Individualism

  2. Gothic Fiction – POE! • Mystery • Suspense • Horror • Symbolism • Edgar Allan Poe – Father of the Short Story • 1809 birth in Boston, mother died in 1811, taken in by Allan family. • 1836 married first cousin, Virginia Clemm, who died five years after a blood vessel bursting in 1842. Last five years remained an invalid. • “Annabel Lee” addressed to Virginia from Poe. • Attempted suicide in 1848, had problems with depression, alcohol, and drugs. • Found in a delirious condition October 7, 1849 in Baltimore gutter. • He had disappeared for three days after a birthday party, he was on his way to see his new fiancee in Richmond. • “The Raven”, Pit and the Pendulum,The Tell Tale Heart, “Annabel Lee”.

  3. Emily Dickinson – Puritan/Gothic • Born 1830 and died in 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts. • Represented a Puritan life belief systems while writings carry Gothic themes. • Reclusion and limited social interaction carries into writings. • Solitude, elements of nature, individual beliefs surface. • Shakespeare, Emerson, Tennyson, Keats all sources of inspiration. • “This is my letter to the World” • “The Soul selects her own Society” • “There’s a certain Slant of light-” • “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-” *Interrupted thoughts, phrases, descriptions. • “Much Madness is the divinest Sense-” • “Because I could not stop for Death” • Extended metaphor –One things represented as another throughout a whole piece. (Carriage-death/a body).

  4. Nathaniel Hawthorne1804-1864 Puritan Criticism/Gothic Traces…. • Symbolism, allusion, psychology, Puritan traits. • Traits of Gothic, Puritanism criticism, fantasy. • Ancestors tied to Salem Witch Trials and Quaker Persecution. • Moved to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home in 1842 with wife. • Showed continued development of the modern short story. • Scarlet Letter, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, The House of Seven Gables,The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun.

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882&Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862Pioneers of Transcendentalism and Individualism • Transcendentalism • Spiritual connection between nature and people. • The soul of individuals resembled the microcosm of the world, a unity of God and the world existed. • “Over-soul” – belief if you pay attention to feelings and inner thoughts, individuals would be able to glimpse the spirit that makes up the universe. • Individualism • Connection of the individual soul with God. • Strong beliefs in personal intuition and flexibility in religion. EmersonThoreau “Self-Reliance” Walden “The Rhodora” Merrimack Rivers Nature (Popularized editorials) “Civil Disobedience” The DialA Plea for Captain John Brown

  6. The Romantics/Fire Side Poets • Romanticism • Objectivity and Power of Reason to discover the laws of the universe and in nature. • In nature were truths of social and human laws. • William Cullen Bryant1794-1878 • “Thanatopsis” (View and thoughts on death”) • Translated The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer. • Helped get Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson elected. • Oliver Wendell Holmes1809-1894 • “The Chambered Nautilus” • Most famous after-dinner speak of the time. • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807-1882 • “The Village Blacksmith” • Poems embodied the New England philosophy of life.

  7. Additional Contributions to The New England Renaissance 1800-1860 • Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 • Studied under Emerson and Thoreau. • Little Women series. • True autobiographical account in “Transcendental Wild Oats”. • Active supporter of women’s suffrage, reform movements. • James Russel Lowel 1819-1891 • Supporter of women’s right and abolitionist. • Editor of The Atlantic Monthly and North American Review, & Bigelow Papers writer. • Major influences as a critic and editor for union causes of Civil War. • Herman Melville1819-1891 • Moby Dick • Themes of nature with good, evil, and reality, romantic qualities & adventure. • Preceded qualities seen in Call of the Wild author.

  8. Additional Authors (Continued) • James Fenimore Cooper1791-1851 • The Deerslayer • Last of the Mohicans • The Pathfinder • The Pioneers • The Prairie • Washington Irving • “Diedrich Knickerbocker” and Geoffrey Crayon pseudonames. LYCEUM MOVMENT – Institutions that offered debates, lectures, entertainment in large halls.

  9. The Arts and New England Renaissance • Art focused on early, then as the age commenced towards Transcendentalism, art was found in nature. • John Singleton Copley, Asher Durand, John Neagle, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Antonio Frasconi, Edouard Manet, Guido Reni, Sandro Botticelli.

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