Nationalism and Sectionalism in Literature

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• Answer the following based on the image above
• What is the artist trying to emphasize in this
  painting?
• What can we tell about art during this period
  based on this painting?
• Based on your knowledge of social studies, how is
  this painting different from the art during early
  periods of US history/European art?

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Nationalism in Literature Art

• 1801-1850

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Noah Webster

• America should record its own form of English.
• Became obvious as nationalism grew.
• American Dictionary of the English Language was
  published in 1828.

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Noah Webster
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Literary Renaissance

• Occurred in the early to mid 1800s.
• Americans beginning to form national and regional
  identity wanted to write about it.
• Romanticism artistic, literary, and
  philosophical movement that began in Europe,
  which greatly influenced authors during this
  period.
• Commitment to individual experiences
• Inherent goodness of the individual
• Feelings emotions instead of reason intellect
• Gave rise to transcendentalism - emphasizing a
  personal religious experience with God nature

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• Transcendentalists
• inherent goodness of both people and nature.
  Transcendentalists believed that society and its
  institutionsparticularly organized religion and
  political partiesultimately corrupted the purity
  of the individual.
• Other Romantic authors
• wrote of American individual identity and
  American culture individual experiences

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Transcendentalists

• Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)
• Henry David Thoreau must fight the pressure to
  conform to society
• Mark Twain-Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
  exploring the struggle between individual
  identity and pressures of society
• Think of them as hippies of the 1800s.

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Emerson
Thoreau
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Romantic Authors

• Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
• Ideas of Puritan society
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Terror and Mystery

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Romantic authors cont.

• James Fennimore Cooper Last of the Mohicans
• Wrote of Native Americans the American
  frontier/landscape
• Washington Irving Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Alex de Tocqueville

• Not American but wanted to write about it.
• Wrote Democracy in America told of his journeys
  through America
• Explained how the social conditions impacted both
  the individual and govt

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Art

• Hudson River Schoolgroup of artists beginning in
  the 1820s known for landscape paintings, led by
  Thomas Cole
• George Caleb Binghamart of ordinary Americans

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Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, 1836
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George Caleb Bingham, Raftsmen Playing Cards, 1847
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Literature

• Pamphlet

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Pamphlet Instructions

• You are to make a pamphlet of the major figures
  (artist writers) of this time period. Foldable
  must include
• Name of individual
• Major Works (books, pieces of art, etc.)
• Significance
• 1 or more images/illustrations
• Works cited (list of websites where you got your
  information)

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• Choose ONE of the following
• Washington Irving
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• Margaret Fuller
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Thomas Cole
• Albert Bierstadt
• George Caleb Bingham
• Frederic Edwin Church
• Thomas Moran
• Walt Whitman