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• Followed what literary age?
• They believed in the natural goodness of humans which is hindered by
the urban life of civilization.
• They believed that the savage is noble, childhood is good and the
emotions inspired by both beliefs causes the heart to soar.
• They believed that knowledge is gained through intuition rather than
reasoning. Use your gut feelings!
• They Contemplated nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral
development
• Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature
• Romantics often elevated the achievements of the misunderstood,
heroic individual outcast.
• Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual
• Places faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination
• Romantic Authors???
• Longfellow
• Irving
• How did our texts fit with Romantic ideals?
• God is in every aspect of nature/nature is a reflection of the
divine spirit.
• Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external
authority. Inspiration is blunted by social conformity, thus it must
be resisted.
• People can use their intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in
nature or their own souls.
• Spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberate
intellectualism and rationality.
• Emerson
• Thoreau
• How do our texts fit with Transcendentalist ideals?
• Dark Romantic writers explored the human potential for evil,
including the psychological effects of guilt, sin, and madness.
• The Dark Romantic view countered the optimism of the
Transcendentalist writers of the time.
• They were often called anti-transcendentalists
How does the “House of Usher” fit with these ideals?
• 1)Event that sparked realism?
• The Civil War
• 2)Realism was a reaction to Romanticism, why? What did the
Romantics do in their writing that the realists would not do?
• They idealized their characters
• 3)What did realism seek to portray?
• The true human form with realistic characters with real conflicts
• 4)What is Regionalism?
• Focuses on characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features
specific to a certain region.
• 5)Focuses on the role of the _______ on the individual.
• 6)Who is the most well known Regionalist writer? Why?
• Mark Twain
• 7)How does Huck Finn fit with the movement of regionalism?