Transcendentalism 18281865

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(Transcendentalism)1828-1865
The Romantic Period
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Just so you know

• The Romantic Period and Romantic literature has
  nothing to do with love or romance, it was
  actually a movement that stressed intuition and
  feelings, acts of heroism.
• This time was also known as the transcendentalism
  time period which means to go beyond common
  thought or experience

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Major Characteristics of this time period

• The Romantic time period, better known as
  transcendentalism, was a movement in the 1800s
  that consisted of men and women who questioned
  the ways of everyday lifepeople started to think
  outside the box, if you will. It was a highly
  individualistic time period, with a focus on
  striving for discovering ones inner self.
  Utopian societies were somewhat popular and
  literature, architecture and painting became a
  popular way for people to express themselves

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Major historical events

• America was going through all types of changes in
  this time period. Our country was still fairly
  new and there were many significant conflicts,
  experiments and events that took place
• Anti-slavery movements began to occur and
  abolitionists like Frederick Douglas, William
  Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Tubman were in their
  prime.
• In 1848 a group of leading feminists met in
  Seneca Falls New York, holding the first womens
  rights convention in American history- a.k.a the
  Seneca Falls Convention.
• Famous Utopian Societies were created-
  societies such as Brook Farm(1841), New Harmony
  and the Oneida Community(1848).

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.more events!

• Our country more than doubled its size in these
  years, with the annexation of New Mexico,
  Arizona, California, Oregon and Texas.
• The famous Uncle Toms Cabin was written in 1852
  by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
• 1860- one of the most famous presidents in U.S
  history- was voted into office. (Abraham Lincoln)
• The south secedes from the rest of the Union in
  1861
• 1861-1865 the five long years of Civil War
• 1865- the thirteenth Amendment established full
  emancipation to all slaves

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and stillmore events

• 1865- The Union is shocked and saddened by the
  assassination of Abe Lincoln
• Reform movements also took places in the 1820s
  and 1830s- calling attention to the horrible
  conditions of mental hospitals, schools for blind
  and deaf and prisons. Education was also
  reformed, with free public schooling established
  and moral/higher education emphasized.

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Prominent People!

• There were many reformers, transcendentalists and
  prominent people from the Romantic Period. Some
  examples
• Horace Mann, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David
  Thoreau, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick
  Douglas, Honest Abe, Harriet Tubman, Ulysses S.
  Grant, and many more
• There was also great revolution and change
  disrupting Europe, with famous men like
• Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Czar Alexander II,
  Claude Monet, Otta von Bismarck and Charles
  Fourier

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Literary works and prominent authors

• The Romantic Period was full of famous authors
  and literary works that helped create a
  literature that was distinctive to America.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson- His essays and writings
  inspired many others
• Margaret Fuller- wrote Women in the Nineteenth
  Century and was a correspondent for the New York
  Times. Fuller wrote much about gender issues and
  was embraced by female activists and suffragists.
  
• Henry David Thoreau- Thoreau was a follower of
  Emerson and wrote the book Walden. Thoreaus
  writings seem to have directly influence both
  Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi.

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..still going

• Harriet Beecher Stowe- Stowes highly
  controversial novel, Uncle Toms Cabin is
  credited to have started the Civil War.
• James Fenimore Cooper- The Last of the Mohicans,
  The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer
• Nathaniel Hawthorne- The Scarlet Letter
• Herman Melville- Moby Dick
• Mary Shelly- Frankenstein
• Charles Dickens- A Christmas Carol, A Childs
  Dream of a Star, A Dinner at Poplar Walk
• Washintong Irving- Although his mot famous
  works, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van
  Winkle were written prior to 1828, he was still
  quite prominent in the Romantic Period

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Architecture

• A style reflecting that of ancients Athens,
  American architects were very big on creating a
  classical Greek appearance meant to glorify the
  democratic spirit of the society

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Handsome mansions also were popular- sort a
return to the style of the middle ages. Some
famous architects were James Renwick Jr., and
Richard Upjohn.
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Fine Art

• A famous artist in the time period was, Thomas
  Gainsborough. His work shown above is an example
  of how art from this time lacked emotion and
  action. What these portraits didnt lack were
  symmetry and proportion. Both pictures share the
  same pose and expression to the extent that you
  could probably switch the heads on these two
  portraits with very little effect to the painting
  overall.

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Music

• Famous composers and songs
• -Francis Hopkinson
• His versatility
• His First song
• The temple of minerva
• Songs dedicated to Washington
• Music for the church
• His importance historically
• -James Lyon
• Commencement odes
• Urania
• Plan for Capturing Nora Scotia
• Life as Minister and composer

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FaShIoN

• Women
• Gown of plum-colored taffeta white organdie
  collar and cuffs-1830
• Day costume for calling and walking Russian green
  velvet coat taffeta bowknots embroidered white
  linen collar-fawn colored silk bonnet-pink
  roses-yellow kid gloves boots of gray cloth and
  black patent leather 1835
• Bloomer frock embroidered organdie and black
  velvetine bodice-short skirt with crinoline full
  Turkish pantaloons neck ruche-straw hat with
  ribbon black slippers 1851

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MorE fAsHioN

• Men
• Frock coat of tobacco brown broadcloth with black
  velvet shawl collar-fawn colored waistcoat and
  trousers over fine black boots blacksilt top
  hat-1831
• Redingote of bottle green clothe-black velvet
  collar-light gray trousers over black boots
  lingerie cravatchamois gloves black silk top
  hat-1831
• Brown cloth, onebotton sack coat-gray cloth
  trousers with brown line plaid-turned down collar
  black silk cravet black hard felt derby red
  velvet waistcoat blackshoes-1861

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Technological Advances!

• Textile Mills and factories that were rapidly
  producing shoes, sewing machines, ready to wear
  clothes, firearms, tools, and iron products for
  the rail road industry
• Railroads- never before had the country been able
  to travel so quickly from one place to another
• Steamships began to replace smaller, slower
  clipper ships that had been used in the past
• An electric telegraph connected the country in
  communication

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Lets Wrap it Up
The Romantic Period was a time of great change
and growth in not only America, but in the rest
world as well. As seen by the impressive list of
prominent people, literature and historic events,
the Romantic Era was highly influential due to
the fact that people just bored with the everyday
way of doing things, and because of that new
ideas, styles and ways of life were invented.