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American Romanticism 1800-1860

Historical Context Industrial Revolution 1760-1840 1803 Louisiana Purchase Enlightenment 1714 - 1818 1848 Gold rush Mid 1800’s – Suffrage Movement Right around the corner - Civil War 1861 - 1865

Romanticism Reaction to Revolutionary Period Reaction to the Industrial Revolution Imagination over Reason Intuition over Fact Focus on Emotions

Dark / Gothic Romantics Romanticism Transcendentalists Love of nature Idealization of rural life Love of beauty and nature Sympathy and sentimentality Dark / Gothic Romantics Nature is alien or even frightening Loss of place in the urban, modern world Enthusiasm for the wild or grotesque in nature Emotional psychology

Dark / Gothic Romantic American Literature

Dark / Gothic Romantic Literature Supernatural events Damsels in distress Creepy / disturbed characters

Dark / Gothic Romantic Literature Creepy settings Omens and dreams Highly charged emotional states

Dark / Gothic Romantic Literature deep awareness of the human capacity for evil probing of the mind, conscience, and heart

The Dark / Gothic Romantics Three giants from this period are Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Hawthorne and Poe are what have been called “brooding” romantics or “anti-transcendentalists” while Irving’s works are interspersed with dark humor.

Father of American Literature Washington Irving Father of American Literature “The Devil and Tom Walker” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” “Rip Van Winkle” 1789 – 1851

Nathaniel Hawthorne Sin, Guilt, Pride, Selfishness The Scarlet Letter “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” “Rappaccini’s Daughter” “The Minister’s Black Veil” “The Birthmark” “Young Goodman Brown” 1804 - 1864

Edgar Allan Poe Created the modern short story & the detective story “Masque of the Red Death” “The Fall of the House of Usher” “The Raven” “The Cask of Amontillado” “The Tell-Tale Heart” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 1809 - 1849