1800 1860 Write a brief description of what it means to be romantic Is this romantic Actually in American literature THIS is Romantic Do these pictures have anything in common Yes look again ID: 501187
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American Romanticism
1800 - 1860Slide2
Write a brief description of what it means to be “romantic”Slide3
Is this romantic?Slide4
Actually, in American literature
THIS
is RomanticSlide5
Do these pictures have anything in common?Slide6
Yes, look again…
Intense emotions
Remote setting (time and place)
Engages the imagination
Intense emotions
Remote setting (time)
Engages the imagination.Slide7
Introduction
The “logical”
view of
the Rationalists (Revolutionary War) writers
was replaced by the Romantic view
Rationalists saw cities as a place to find success and self-realization
Romantics saw the city as a place of moral corruption, poverty, and deathSlide8
The Romantic Sensibility
Values
feeling and intuition
over reason
Views life as we would
like it to be, rather than how it really is
A
reaction
against RationalismSlide9
The Romantic Sensibility
The development of slums and poverty due to the Industrial Revolution turned people from Rationalism
Romantics believed that imagination, emotion, spontaneity, feelings, and nature were more important than rational thoughtSlide10
Characteristics of Romanticism
values feelings over
reason
values the power of the imagination
seeks the beauty of unspoiled nature
values
individual freedom
values the lessons of the past
finds beauty in exotic
locales and the supernatural
values poetry as the highest expression of the
imagination
values myth, legend, and folk cultureSlide11
Gothic Romanticism
Wild
, haunted
landscapes
Supernatural
events in the plot
Often
mysterious
Edgar
Allan Poe was Romanticism’s great
American writerSlide12
Romantic
Idealism
Used
lyrical poetry as a
means to contemplate the beauty of
nature
Focused
on simple natural beauties
Sought truth
through a calm
contemplation of a simple natural beauty Saw God’s presence in natureSlide13
American Romantic Poetry
Most Romantic poets worked within
conventional European literary structures
They proved that American poetry could
reflect American subject matter, yet still
hold to conventional poetic style
Most American Romantic poets wrote
about the pastSlide14
American Romantic Poetry
The Fireside Poets, a Boston group of
Longfellow,
Bryant, Whittier
, Holmes, and Lowell,
were
widely read and loved in America
They were the TV of the American
Romantic period and families gathered
around the fireside to be entertained by their
poetry
Their subject matter was comfortable and
instructionalSlide15
The New American Hero
American Romantic literature created this
unique person
he was youthful
he was innocent
he was intuitive
he was one with nature
he was a loner – uneasy around women
he was handsome
he was brave
he was moral and honorable