American Romanticism 1800 - 1860.

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American Romanticism 1800 - 1860

Characteristics of Romanticism values feelings over intuition values the power of the imagination seeks the beauty of unspoiled nature values youthful innocence values individual freedom values the lessons of the past finds beauty in exotic locales, the supernatural, and in the imagination values poetry as the highest expression of the imagination values myth, legend, and folk culture

Romantic Escapism Romantic writing looked for comforting or exotic settings from the past This was found in the supernatural, in nature, and/or in folk legends Romantics believed in contemplating, or becoming one with the natural world The Gothic novel emerged from Romanticism

Romantic Escapism The Gothic novel had wild, haunted landscapes It had supernatural events in the plot It was often mysterious The Gothic concept had roots in France, Germany, and England Edgar Allan Poe was Romanticism’s great American writer

Famous American Romantic Writers Edgar Allan Poe James Fenimore Cooper Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne Washington Irving Herman Melville Walt Whitman