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Title: American Romanticism


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American Romanticism
  • 1800-1860

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A Journey
  • Away from civilization and back to nature
  • Away from corruption and back to innocence and
    youth
  • Away from industrialization and back to intuition
    and emotion
  • Away from rationalization and back to imagination
  • Away from science and back to poetry

3
Literature
  • Search for higher truth
  • Exotic locales
  • Contemplation of the natural world
  • Development of Gothic novel and exploration of
    the human mind
  • Less clearly defined divinity in nature

4
American Novels
  • New subject matter frontiers, westward
    expansion, frontier life, wilderness
  • New American hero heroic, simple morality, love
    of nature, innocent, youthful, intuitive

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American Poetry
  • Mimics European styles, themes, meter, imagery
  • Fireside Poets read aloud for family
    entertainment, subjects included love,
    patriotism, nature, family, God, religion
  • Fireside Poets also introduced new subjects
    American landscapes, abolitionist issues, Indian
    culture
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