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Title: American Romanticism


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American Romanticism
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The Age of Reason or The Enlightenment
  • Founded on
  • Deism
  • Logic
  • Inalienable rights
  • It also brought
  • Industrialization, growth of cities, and
    factories
  • American expansion (Lewis and Clark and Manifest
    Destiny)
  • More encounters with Native Americans


Albert Bierstadt
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Romanticism a reaction to the Age of Reason
Romanticism
Age of Reason
  • Realism
  • Patrician Classicism
  • Dominion over the Native American
  • Logic, always facts to counter fear and doubt
  • Idealism/Utopia
  • Glorification of the common man
  • Recognition of the nobility of the primitive
    the noble savage
  • Imagination to engender faith and hope

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Characteristics of Romanticism
  • Contemplating natures beauty is the path to
    spiritual and moral development.
  • Values feeling and intuition over reason
  • Looks backward to the wisdom of the past, shuns
    progress

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The City was a Place of . . .
  • The Rationalists saw the city as a place of
    industry, success, self realization, and
    civilization.
  • The Romantics saw the city as a place of poor
    work conditions, moral ambiguity, corruption, and
    death.

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The Journey
  • Romanticism was often seen as a journey.
  • The journey from the city to the country
  • The journey from rational thought to the
    imagination

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The Fireside Poets
The Most Popular American Poets of Their Time
John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant,
James Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Their poems were often read aloud at the fireside
    as family entertainment.
  • Themes love, patriotism, nature, family, and
    religion
  • It is poetry that seeks a higher truth from the
    natural world.

The Fireside poets were the first group of
American poets to rival British poets in
popularity in either country.
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Literature
  • -American Novel - The Romantic Hero
  • Youthful
  • Pure of Purpose
  • Sense of Honor not based on societys rules but
    a higher principle
  • Intuitive Understanding (not formal learning)
  • Loves nature and avoids town life
  • Quests for higher truth in the natural world
  • Modern day examples Superman, Luke Skywalker,
    Indiana Jones

-American Novelists looked to westward expansion
and the frontier for inspiration creating a break
with European tradition. Folktales by
regional writers offered glimpse of the
supernatural
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