Title: Notes on American Romanticism: Copy and Paste Handout. - BrightHub Education
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Notes on American Romanticism: Copy and Paste Handout.
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Romanticism
American Romanticism
Important Writers
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Content: The romance may include the traditional hero with white hat on the white horse; the evil villain with the long black mustache; the lovely young woman in need of rescue, and the hairbreadth rescue itself. Romanticism as a movement began in the late 18th century, moved to England where it developed an emphasis in the glorification of nature, the supernatural, and the rebel—the individual against society. It spread to America in the early to mid 19th century and is represented in such writers as Hawthorne, Poe, and Cooper. American Romanticism
In the 1830’s, America began to experience the impact of the Romantic Movement that was transforming European civilization. Like the European movement of which it was an offshoot, American Romanticism was in a broad sense a new attitude toward nature, humanity, and society that espoused individualism and freedom. Many trends characterized American Romanticism. Among the most important are the following: An impulse toward reform (temperance, women’s rights, abolition of slavery)
A celebration of individualism (Emerson, Thoreau)
A reverence for nature (Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau)
A concern with the impact of new technology (locomotive)
An idealization of women
A fascination with death and the supernatural (Hawthorne, Poe)
Important Writers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882):