Romanticism - A Moveable Feast: 11th American Literature
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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
Differences
between North and South grow
(agricultural v. industrial economies)
Characteristics
The Five I’s
Imagination
Intuition
Idealism
Inspiration
Individuality
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
Literary Techniques
Remote
settings
Improbable
plots
Experimentation
in new forms of writing
Romantic Authors
Washington
Rip
Van Winkle
Nathaniel
The
Irving
Hawthorne
Scarlet Letter
Sub-Movements of Romanticism
Gothicism
Edgar
Allan Poe
The
Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
Nathaniel
The
Hawthorne
Minister’s Black Veil
Sub-Movements of Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Nature
Self-Reliance
Henry
David Thoreau
Walden
Resistance
to Civil Government
Romantic Poets
William
Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
The
Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
The Cross of Snow
Oliver
The
Wendell Holmes
Chambered Nautilus
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
I
Whitman
Hear America Singing
Song of Myself
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.
Visual Arts: Examples
Romantic Art
Neoclassical Art