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The American Romantic Movement (aka The American Renaissance) ~ 1800-1860

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The American Romantic Movement (aka The American Renaissance). ~ 1800-1860. Romanticism. The name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason. Reaction against the Rationalism of Ben Franklin - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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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