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19th Century Literature AP Language and Composition

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Literature  Quest of the individual to define himself-- WHO AM I?  Personal, bold, unique to individual

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Page 1: 19th Century Literature AP Language and Composition

19th Century Literature

AP Language and Composition

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HistoryRapid growth: national pride/awareness

Transportation, westward movement

Era of the common man

Technology--frontier settlement/instant communication

Prosperity=competition, cause and effect--child labor, unsafe working conditions

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Literature

Quest of the individual to define himself--WHO AM I?

Personal, bold, unique to individual

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Romantics

Elevated imagination over reason/intuition over fact

Reveled in nature Exaggerated the

fantastic aspects of reality (Poe)

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Transcendentalists Flourished in New

England The understanding a

person gains intuitively because it lies beyond direct experience

Real truths lie outside the experience of the senses--resides in the Over-Soul (God, but not really)

Emerson and Thoreau

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The Darker Side

Hawthorne Melville Life in grim terms

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Poetry

Dickinson Fireside Poets:

popular at that time Walt Whitman:

irregular forms, frank language, revolutionary for this time