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Title: American Individualism


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American Individualism Romanticism
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Individualism Definition
  • A belief in the importance of an individual and
    the virtue of relying on yourself and personal
    independence

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The Beginning of Individualism
  • End of rationalism beginning of Romanticism
  • American Revolution
  • French Revolution

4
Definition of Romanticism
  • Celebrated nature and emphasized imagination and
    emotion

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Characteristics of Romanticism
  • Many experimental verse forms
  • Natural diction
  • Enthusiasm for the wild, irregular, or grotesque
    in nature and art
  • Unrestrained imagination enthusiasm for the
    uncivilized or "natural"
  • Interest in human rights
  • Sympathy with animal life
  • Sentimental melancholy
  • Emotions

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Romantic Literary Forms
  • the sentimental novel
  • the ballad
  • the problem novel
  • the historical novel
  • the Gothic romance
  • the critical essay

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Individualism Authors
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Herman Melville
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Walt Whitman
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Conrad Richter
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