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Title: American Romanticism


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American Romanticism
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A New Setting
  • Rationalistscity was a place to find success and
    self realization
  • Romantic Writerscity was place of shifting
    morals, corruption, and death
  • Focus on countrysidemoral clarity, independence,
    and healthful living

3
Definition
  • School of thought that values feelings and
    intuition over reason

4
Beliefs
  • Could you find the 6 Is of romanticism in your
    reading? Where?
  • Intuition
  • Imagination
  • Innocence
  • Inspiration from nature
  • Inner experience
  • Individualism

5
Goal
  • Rise above the dull realities to a realm of
    higher truth
  • Exotic settings
  • Reflected on natural world until dull reality
    fell away to reveal underlying beauty and truth
  • Focus on ordinary

6
The American Novel
  • Different subject matter
  • Limitless frontiers
  • Westward expansion
  • Nationalist spirit
  • Spread of cities
  • Idealization of frontier life

7
The American Romantic Hero
  • Virtue was in innocence, not sophistication
  • Truth discovered in wilderness
  • Youthful
  • Intuitive
  • Close to nature
  • Hopelessly uneasy with women (represent
    civilization)
  • Can you think of any??

8
Poetry
  • Followed European standards

9
Transcendentalists
  • To determine the ultimate reality of God, the
    universe, the self, and other important matters,
    one must transcend, or go beyond, everyday human
    experience in the physical world.
  • Human perfectibility
  • All part of Divine Soulmust realize!

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Dark Romantics
  • Explored conflict between good and evil
  • Explored psychological effects of guilt and sin
  • Explored madness in the human psyche
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