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 individualTRANSCRIPT
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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