Title: 
Headings: Unit #2: Romanticism, Transcendentalism, & Gothic Literature
Literature

America
 
Grows
 
as
 
a
 
Nation

Origins
 
of
 
Romanticism

What
  
is
 
Romanticism?

Romanticism
 
vs.
 
Puritanism
 
&
 
Age
 
of
 
Reason

Romanticism

Intuition

Idealism

Inspiration
 
(Religion)

Individuality

Romantic
 
Escapism

Natural
 
Settings

Settings
 
in
 
the
 
past

Settings
 
in
 
Legends
 
or
 
Folklore

Romantic
 
Literature:
 
Poetry

James
 
Fenimore
Cooper

The
 
new
 
American
 
Romantic
 
Hero
 
vs.
 
The
 
“Hero”
 
of
 
Age
 
of
 
Reason

Characteristics
 
of
 
the
 
American
 
Romantic
 
Hero

The
 
First
 
American
 
Hero
 
in
 
Literature

Natty
 
Bumppo

Romantic
 
Writers

New
 
England
 
Romantics
 
(known
 
as
 
“The
 
Fireside
 
Poets”)


Content: It
 
is
 
known
 
as
 
the
 
Romantic
 
Movement
or
Romantic
 
Revival. Romanticism
 
vs.
 
Puritanism
 
&
 
Age
 
of
 
Reason

 
The
 
Romantic
 
movement
 
was
 
a
 
reaction
 
to
 
both
 
the
 
strict
 
beliefs
 
of
 
the
 
Puritans
 
and
 
the
 
rationalism
 
of
 
the
 
18th-century
 
Age
 
of
 
Reason. The
 
authors
 
of
 
the
 
new
 
Romantic
 
movement
 
rejected
 
the
 
ordered
 
rationality
 
of
 
the
 
writings
 
of
 
the
 
Puritans
 
and
 
writers
 
during
 
the
 
American
 
Revolution. Romanticism
 
vs.
 
Puritanism
 
&
 
Age
 
of
 
Reason

 
The
 
Romantic
 
writers
 
felt
 
that
 
the
 
literature
 
of
 
the
 
1700s
 
and
 
earlier
 
was
 
too
 
mechanical,
 
impersonal,
 
and
 
artificial. Romantics
 
were
 
less
 
concerned
 
with
 
social
 
or
 
political
 
reform
 
(as
 
was
 
dominant
 
during
 
the
 
Age
 
of
 
Reason)
 
than
 
with
 
the
 
expression
 
of
 
their
 
own
 
intuitive
 
experience. Romanticism

 
Romanticism
 
is
 
characterized
 
by
 
the
 
5
 
“I”s

Imagination


Intuition


Idealism


Inspiration


Individuality


IMAGINATION

 
To
 
the
 
Romantics,
 
imagination,
 
individual
 
feelings,
 
and
 
wild
 
nature
 
were
 
of
 
greater
 
value
 
than
 
reason,
 
rationalism,
 
and
 
logic
 
(which
 
were
 
important
 
during
 
the
 
Age
 
of
 
Reason
 
in
 
the
 
mid
 
to
 
late
 
1700s). Each
 
person’s
 
imagination
 
is
 
the
 
critical
 
authority
 
over
 
all
 
matters. The
 
Romantics
 
believed
 
that
 
the
 
imagination
 
was
 
able
 
to
 
discover
 
truths
 
that
 
the
 
rational
 
mind
 
could
 
not
 
reach. These
 
truths
 
were
 
usually
 
accompanied
 
by
 
powerful
 
emotion
 
and
 
associated
 
with
 
natural,
 
unspoiled
 
beauty. Intuition

 
Romantics
 
placed
 
value
 
on
 
“intuition.”