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19th Century Literature AP Language and Composition

History Rapid growth: national pride/awareness Transportation, westward movement Era of the common man Technology--frontier settlement/instant communication Prosperity=competition, cause and effect--child labor, unsafe working conditions

Literature  Quest of the individual to define himself-- WHO AM I?  Personal, bold, unique to individual

Romantics  Elevated imagination over reason/intuition over fact  Reveled in nature  Exaggerated the fantastic aspects of reality (Poe)

Transcendentalists  Flourished in New England  The understanding a person gains intuitively because it lies beyond direct experience  Real truths lie outside the experience of the senses-- resides in the Over-Soul (God, but not really)  Emerson and Thoreau

The Darker Side  Hawthorne  Melville  Life in grim terms  Hawthorne  Melville  Life in grim terms

Poetry  Dickinson  Fireside Poets: popular at that time  Walt Whitman: irregular forms, frank language, revolutionary for this time  Dickinson  Fireside Poets: popular at that time  Walt Whitman: irregular forms, frank language, revolutionary for this time