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Title: Romanticism


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Romanticism
  • Self-reliance and individualism
  • The individual is at the center of life and
    experience
  • Human beings were innately good

2
Romanticism
  • Emotion and intuition could provide avenues to
    truth
  • Importance of the imagination
  • Interest in the supernatural

3
Romanticism
  • Importance of Nature --focusing on the American
    landscape as a setting
  • Advancing a democratic aesthetic, one that
    challenged concepts of hierarchy and privilege
  • Interest in social reform and belief in progress

4
Realism
  • Verisimilitude the slice of life
  • Accurate reproduction of character and
  • representation of life use of dialects and
    language of the streets
  • Emphasis on manners, customs, behaviors
  • Often a conflict between manners and morals

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Realism
  • Free choice of subject matter
  • Common individuals and the low as fit subjects
    for literature
  • Importance of scientific observation
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