By: Kayla Brooks Mika Fengler Alexandra Dorrell

Steamboat Sailing Canal Railroad Transport goods and people Built in New York 1825 Link, east and west coast. Called Iron House First in 1869

Rising Industrialization in the Romantic Era Factories are found in the Northeast Some inventions= –Steel plow –Reaper –Telegraph –Morse Code Spurred Social Change Rapid growth=National pride and self awareness

Moving Outwards and Advances in the Romanic Period 16 states eastward coast As growth Americans began to direct control over government. Democratic advances= ONLY WHITE MEN Gold Rush spurred growth to the west coast

Slavery in the Romantic Era North vs. South Cotton Gin demanded MORE slaves 8 million-15 million slaves underground railroad Civil war fought over slavery Lincoln

Types of Literature in the Romantic Period Short Stories Novels Folktales Poems Speeches Sermons Diaries Essays Epistles

Romantic Authors Do not particularly write about love Romantic, by definition, is having no basis in fact; a product of invention or exaggeration Most authors used imagination over reasoning and intuition over fact

Washington Irving ( ) Born on April 3, 1783 in New York City around the Hudson River Valley Youngest of 11 He wrote for a brother’s newspaper He went on a tour of Europe in 1804 In 1807 he wrote the Salmagundi which is a collection of twenty essays about society of the day

William Bryant ( ) Born on November 3, 1794 in Cummings He attended Williams College in 1810 through 1811 then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1815 In 1825 he moved with his wife Frances Fairchild to New York City and became editor of the New York Review and later joined the Evening Post, a New York newspaper He wrote his finest poem, “Thanatopsis,” at age 17 Some other famous works include “To a Waterfowl,” “Green River,” and “The Yellow Violet”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( ) Born in Portland, Maine Attended Bowdoin College, which he later taught at along with Harvard University He wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride.” He was famous for his ballads such as; The Village of the Blacksmith, The Wreck of the Hesperus, Evangeline (1847), The Song of Hiawatha (1858) and the Courtship f Miles Standish

John Greenleaf Whittier ( ) Born in 1807 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Fist poem – “The Exile’s Departure” First book – Legends of New England in Prose and Verse Best known poem – “ Maud Muller” He was a very emotional and sentimental writer

Culture During the Romantic period, the United States signed the treaty for the Louisiana Purchase. This gave the United States the territory from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. All of this land was Purchased from the French in 1803.

In 1814, the Star Spangled Banner was written. Francis Scott Key, wrote this poem after seeing the flag still standing at Fort McHenry. Later this poem was turned into a song and adapted to be the United States’ national anthem in 1931.

The electromagnetic telegraph was patented by Samuel F.B. Morse in This enabled the use of the Morse Code. The Morse Code was a way of conveying the alphabet through a combination of dots and lines.

In 1848, the California Gold Rush began. Gold was found in a mill in California. Soon people all over the world were traveling to California in hopes of striking gold.

In 1838, many Native Americans were forced by the United States government to travel the Trail of Tears. All of these Charokees had to walk from Georgia to Oklahoma. During this, conditions were terrible leaving about 4,000 dead.

Inner Feelings & Emotions Freedom of form Self-expression, unique personal feelings Stories based on emotions or human experiences Questioning movements & ideals-effects on human

Quest for Individual to Define Himself Subjectivity against rationalism & fixed genres Created own forms-mixed several genres Individual thinking

Imagination Over Reason Stories converted to myth Transcendentalism, human mind unlocking any mystery “tapped into universal truth through imagination”

Nature Inspires Man to High Ideals Direct revelation of truth “living garment of God” Viewed as good & kind compared to the corruption of society Used for theme/setting Interested in dark side of nature Appreciated wonders of nature

Interest In Past History major part in fiction Inspiration for poems/stories Mysterious, exotic, distant/far away Middle Ages-folk songs, tales, understanding dreams

Characteristics of Writing Simile-two things are compared using like or as Metaphor-comparison/characteristic is given to something Symbolism-word or image represents something more than itself Point of View-perspective of who is telling the story Imagery-writing that forms a mental image Irving-Devil & Tom Walker-uses omniscient 3 rd person “And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor”-The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe

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