PPT-A Quick Overview of Romanticism and Transcendentalism

Poe Irvin Hawthorn Emerson Thoreau Whitman etc Romanticism A literary movement originally invented by European writers that was then adopted and popularized by American writers in the early 1800s. The 60’s (1800’s style). Get your Composition Notebooks. Out, please!. Romantics and Transcendentalism . Both movements . emphasized an aesthetic experience identifying new emotions . such as . anxiety, awe, terror, and horror. Romanticism. 1. Lecture outline. Overview of Romanticism. Lecture themes. Romanticism and the Gothic. Romanticism – poetry as reflection. Wordsworth & “emotion recollected in tranquility”. Romanticism and mortality. Transcendentalism, Thoreau & Dark Romanticism. Welcome to October – Time to turn it up a notch!!!!. Thoreau Re-Cap. How did the two biographical pieces differ? . Did you talk about this yesterday? Why not?. Light Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, Transcendentalism . Romanticism as a Journey. Away from . Corruption of civilization. Limits of rational thought. Romanticism as a Journey. Toward. Integrity of nature. SchoolRoom. Poets, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Optimists & Pessimists. Romanticism . Individualism. Nature. Imagination. Distant. SchoolRoom. poets. -Taught in a school. -Memorized. -Cultural provincialism [Universality]. By Kiera Rae & Jacob Smith. What is Transcendentalism?. Transcendentalism is a religious movement that arose around the 1820-1830s. Based around a set of beliefs, people who followed these beliefs believed in self reliance and being one with nature. This movement was started to combat the way the government was going and to embrace ones self and spirituality.. English III. Journal Warm-Up. Consider the following quote by Friedrich Nietzsche:. “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”. A 19. th. century literary and philosophical movement, based in New England, claiming that the individual conscience and intuition are key to finding truth, rather than the basic senses and logical reason.. and try to figure out what the term “transcendentalism” might mean.. With a partner, make . a . list on your board: . What . does a person have to . believe. in order to be a transcendentalist? . . i. n American Literature. 1800-1870. http://www.honors.uiuc.edu/eng255/lectures/12-13.html. Historical and Cultural Background. Write down the essential questions. :. What is the relationship between place and literature?. Gothic Literature movement. Dark Romanticism. A literary subgenre of Romantic Literature that emerged from the transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America.. The Dark Romantics adapted images of anthropomorphized evil in the form of Satan, devils, . Gothic Literature movement. Dark Romanticism. A literary subgenre of Romantic Literature that emerged from the transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America.. Works in the dark romantic spirit were influenced by Transcendentalism, but did not entirely embrace the ideas of Transcendentalism. . They struggled to define spirituality and religion in light of the spread of deism / Unitarianism, and the reason and logic of the Enlightenment.. An argument against traditional religious views had come out of the religion largely based on the work of John Locke.. Welcome to October – Time to turn it up a notch!!!!. Thoreau Re-Cap. How did the two biographical pieces differ? . Did you talk about this yesterday? Why not?. How did the excerpts from . Walden.