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American Romanticism

1800-1850s Territorial Expansion Industrial Revolution Wars, forced migration, expansion Manifest Destiny: occupancy of the whole continent Accomplished in 1846 Louisiana Purchase Industrial Revolution Factory system Trains Communication Agriculture

1800-1850s Democracy Minorities Voting rights Public education system Trail of Tears Slavery/Abolistionist movement Women’s rights

Enlightenment v. Romanticism City Corruption Death Moral ambiguity Responsibilities Limited thought Country Integrity Healthful living Moral clarity Freedom Imagination

The City, Grim and Gray Crowded, unsanitary Cholera epidemic Homeless Killed 100/day Bacterial infection of digestive system Homeless Crime

Romantic Sensibility Romanticism Poetry Value feeling and intuition over reason Natural, emotional, conscience Truth, beauty, emotion over reason and logic Poetry

Romantic Escapism Inspiration of Nature Intuition Imagination Moral lessons of nature Intuition Feelings over reason Imagination Innocence Inner Experience Psychological exploration

The American Novel Focused on westward expansion James Fennimore Cooper Wrote The Leatherstocking Tales Natty Bumppo First American heroic figure Novels read as adventure stories for adolescents

American Romantic Poetry English themes, meter and imagery Fireside poets/Schoolhouse poets Longfellow, Bryant, Whittier, Lowell, Holmes Read for family entertainment Used American subject matter

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Romantic Writing Fireside Transcendentalism Gothic Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Holmes, Bryant Transcendentalism Emerson & Thoreau Gothic Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Irving