Transcendentalism A movement in literature during the

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Transcendentalism Walden Pond, Concord MA.

Advertisements

Important American Writers. Washington Irving Best known for his short stories, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” Sleepy Hollow is the.

Chapter 14 Sec 2 1.Writing A.Romanticism: A style of writing that stressed individual, imagination, creativity and emotion. James Fennimore Cooper Noah.

The Beginnings of an American Culture ArtMusicLiterature.

Objectives Identify the common themes in American literature and art in the mid-1800s. Describe the flowering of American literature in the mid-1800s.

The Ferment of Reform and Culture Chapter 15. Second Great Awakening ¾ of 23 million Americans attended church ¾ of 23 million Americans attended church.

Cultural Trends of the 1800s Fine Arts: Increase in an educated population Improved financial ability allowed the citizens of the USA to purchase & participate.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The Arts in the mid-1800s.

Objectives Identify the common themes in American literature and art in the mid-1800s. Describe the flowering of American literature in the mid-1800s.

Important American Writers Transcendentalism  philosophical movement that developed in the 1830s and 1840s  protest general state of culture and society.

The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole, a noted Hudson River School artist.

American Romanticism Elements of Romanticism Frontier: vast expanse, freedom, no geographic limitations. Experimentation: in science, in.

American Art and Literature. Vocabulary The Hudson River School – A group of American artists who painted landscaped of mainly of the Hudson River in.

The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole, a noted Hudson River School artist.

Objective 2.02 Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature, and language.

Romanticism & Transcendentalism English 2 Period 6 Loyola High School.

Important American Writers & Works of Literature.

8.6.7 American Arts The Big Idea New movements in art and literature influenced many Americans in the early 1800s. Main Ideas Transcendentalists and utopian.

The “American” Culture Creating a distinct American image.

Romantic Period. Origins The Romanticism movement began around the late 18 th - early 19 th century Started in Europe and then spread to America.

Evaluate the impact of American social and political reform on the emergence of a distinct culture.

The New American Culture: Art, Literature, Transcendentalism Goal 2.

Romanticism & Transcendentalism

Question and Answer Samples and Techniques. Wrote “Because I Could not Stop for Death” Wrote “The Raven” Wrote Rip Van Winkle Wrote “Self Reliance” and.

The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole, a noted Hudson River School artist.

IV. American Literature and Arts. A. An American Culture Develops 1.American themes were developed by writers such as Washington Irving and James Fennimore.

The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole, a noted Hudson River School artist American Art.

TAKS REVIEW Signing of the Declaration 1776.

The Hudson River School Look at the paintings on the next three slides. Identify traits which they all have in common.

Artistic Achievements America’s Cultural Identity and a growing sense of Nationalism.

Art, Literature, & Reform Between American art flourished Prior to this period American artists looked to Europe for inspiration 1830s artists.

When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add,

Important American Writers and Artists Use this slideshow with the handout provided in class.

American Literature and Art Romanticism, Transcendentalism and the Hudson River School.

“American Literature and Art Movement” Power Point by Emma Steely.

Transcendentalism Historical movement was limited in time from the mid 1830s to the late 1840s. Historical movement was limited to eastern Massachusetts.

The Beginnings of an American Culture ArtMusicLiterature.

AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ARTS Carly Britch. Before 1800, most American painters studied in Europe. Benjamin West Charles Willson Peale Gilbert Stuart By.

IV. American Literature and Arts

Mrs. Britte English 11 Honors WXHS

American Literature and Arts

ROMANTICISM and TRANSCENDENTALISM ( )

American Art and Literature in the 19th Century

American Literature, Art and Music in the 1800s

Antebellum American Culture

Objectives Identify the common themes in American literature and art in the mid-1800s. Describe the flowering of American literature in the mid-1800s.

The Birth of American Literature and Art

The Age of Transcendentalism

Welcome to... Hertford Squares A Game of X’s and O’s.

-Alexis de Tocqueville

Get in eight different groups! You may move chairs, but not desks.

Bell Work Turn in your DBQ from last Friday if you took it home to complete. Complete your calendars.

U.S. Cultural Movements of Early 1800s

CATEGORY TWO: SOCIAL INFLUENCES/CULTURE.

American Arts Chapter 13-2 Pages

The Arts in the mid-1800s.

Nationalism & Sectionalism in art, literature & language

American Literature, Art and Music in the 1800s

Second Great Awakening

Chapter 8, Section 4 American Literature and Arts p

Artistic Achievements

Important American Writers

U.S. Cultural Movements of Early 1800s

AP U.S. History Ch 15,

Objectives Identify the common themes in American literature and art in the mid-1800s. Describe the flowering of American literature in the mid-1800s.

15.1 Literature, Art, and Science pp

U.S. Cultural Movements of Early 1800s

The New American Culture: Art, Literature, Transcendentalism

The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole, a noted Hudson River School artist

15.1 Literature, Art, and Science pp

Presentation transcript:

Transcendentalism A movement in literature during the 1830's, 40's, & 50's. Authors stressed the presence of God in nature and the importance of the individual. The movement also emphasized rejection of traditional authority and individual self-reliance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Wrote Nature, & Self Reliance. Believed in man's mystical unity with nature. He also expressed the belief that salvation was within the individual.

Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden & Civil Disobedience. His writings on resistance to authority forever influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi.

Walt Whitman Poet whose collection Leaves of Grass was initially a financial failure. He pushed the envelope of acceptability, having some of his works banned for their sexuality.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet who became very popular in Europe for things like “Song of Hiawatha” and “Evangeline.”

Louisa May Alcott Little Women author who grew up alongside Emerson and Thoreau.

Emily Dickinson Wrote poetry about love, nature, death, and all were published after her death.

Washington Irving wrote Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Known for his stories of the New York area and his comic satire

James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Last of the Mohicans & The Leatherstocking Tales. Known for his tales of the frontier. Earned many enemies after he wrote about the abuses of democracy.

Edgar Allen Poe wrote The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, & The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Known for his dark tales, he was one of the most brilliant American writers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Spent 6 months at Brook Farm, hated it, and left. Wrote The Scarlet Letter in 1850.

Herman Melville His masterpiece Moby Dick went largely unnoticed until the 20th Century.

Hudson River Artists Group of artists who painted scenes of colonial farms, becoming popular as Americans remembered simpler times.