the emergence of american literature, philosophy, and art and scientific attitudes

The Emergence of American Literature, Philosophy, and Art and Scientific Attitudes

Painting Portraiture Historical ScenesLandscapes: Hudson River School

Painting-2Indian and Western Scenes Art Reproductions Sculpture

Hudson River School

Hudson River School

Hudson River School

Music Symphony Orchestra Choral Societies Music Schools

Music-2Music Periodicals Patriotic Songs American Composers and Musicians

Search for a national

language Dictionary of the English language

Noah Webster

Literary works Continued preference for English authors

William Shakespeare most popular

Writers on the American scene

First “American” Authors

Literary works

First “American” AuthorsRalph Waldo EmersonEmily DickinsonWashington IrvingJames Fennimore Cooper

Literary works First “American” Authors

Walt WhitmanHenry David ThoreauNathaniel HawthorneHerman MelvilleEdgar Allan Poe

Literary works 1830’s- Cheap paperbacks and newspapers were available for the first time

History Search for Heroes and a national history

WashingtonFounding Fathers

History-2National Historians Foreigners’ Observations

Alexis de Tocqueville-1830

Transcendentalism

Origins Components Influence