the american romantic movement (aka the american renaissance) ~ 1800-1860
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The American Romantic Movement(aka The American
Renaissance)
~ 1800-1860
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Romanticism
• The name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason.
• Reaction against the Rationalism of Ben Franklin
• Reaction against the corruption and decay found in the cities – inspiration and value found in nature
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The 5 “I’s” of Romanticism
• Intuition• Imagination• Innocence• Inspiration– Nature– Supernatural
• Inner Experience
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Aims of the American Romantic Novelists & Short Story Authors
Create a new art formCapture the American landscape and
American sentiment through a “new hero” in a “new story”
Authors: James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving
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The new American Hero
• James Fenimore Cooper & Natty Bumppo
• Take notes on the “characteristics of the new American hero” on page 146-149
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Aims of the American Romantic Poets
• Wanted to be respected by European authors• Used classical themes and imagery in addition
to images of nature• Did not want to be seen as “American country
bumpkins” – almost too traditional in their formats and themes
• The Fireside Poets (poems often read aloud at campfires and in front of the hearth) – Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Dark Romantics
• The darker side of the 5 “I’s”• Supernatural elements• Gothic images• Authors: Herman Melville, Edgar
Allan Poe
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Herman Melville
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The Transcendentalists
• Romantic Philosophers• Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry David Thoreau• More notes later…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson