Romantic Period of American Literature. 4 Characteristics of Romantic Lit. The Distant: Remote settings of time and location Nature: description of beauty,

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

A Journey through Romanticism

Advertisements

The American Romantic Renaissance. Basic Facts of Romanticism Broadly speaking, the era of the Romantic Renaissance in American literature is

The American Renaissance (1800 – 1870)

“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romanticism  Genres and Style of Romanticism  Character sketches  Slave narratives  Poetry  Short stories.

Literary Movement.  : Rationalism/ Age of Reason  : Romanticism  : Realism.

The Romantic Period ( ) AMERICAN RENAISSANCE The Romantic Period ( )

Unit 3 The American Within Several decades since the Revolutionary War Several decades since the Revolutionary War Many new inventions (Industrial.

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

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

The Emergence of American Literature, Philosophy, and Art and Scientific Attitudes.

Historical Context Industrial Revolution

Romanticism & Transcendentalism English 2 Period 6 Loyola High School.

American Romanticism. Time Period American Romanticism lasted roughly from 1800 to American Romanticism lasted roughly from 1800 to 1860.

STAAR 8 th Grade Social Studies CATEGORY TWO continued: SOCIAL INFLUENCES/CULTURE.

AMERICAN ROMANTICISM Enter Imagination. A PERIOD OF GREAT CULTURAL CHANGE  Romanticism focused on emotions and the individual  Writers in this time.

Important American Writers & Works of Literature.

The American Romantic Movement (aka The American Renaissance) ~

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.

ROMANTICISM. Romanticism Artistic movement Artistic movement State of Mind, or both State of Mind, or both.

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

What does it mean to call someone Romantic?  Describe a Romantic encounter in detail. It can be personal experience, or what you would imagine to be the.

American Romanticism I hear America Singing Walt Whitman.

American Romanticism

American Romanticism Celebrating the Individual.

We will walk with our own feet We will work with our own hands We will speak our own minds -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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.

A Journey through Romanticism 1800 – Authors and Poets Romanticism Pioneers – Washington Irving and William C. Bryant Romanticism Pioneers – Washington.

Start-Up What do you think of when you hear the word “romantic”? Have you ever heard of the term Romanticism used to describe a style of literature? What.

ROMANTICISM AND DARK-ROMANTICISM. Historical Context = time of growth and expansion westward The move west brought new technologies in transportation,

Nationalism and Sectionalism in art, literature and language Week 2 Day 3.

Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Romanticism “We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak with our own minds…A nation of men will for the first.

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

UNIT 4 ( ). THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE DEFINITION  Unrestrained growth in U.S.  : area of U.S. increases from 846,000 to 2,181,000. 

AN ARTISTIC MOVEMENT THAT GREW OUT OF A REACTION AGAINST THE DOMINANT ATTITUDES OF THE AGE OF REASON ROMANTICISM ( )

American Romanticism ( ) ENGLISH 11 AMERICAN LITERATURE.

Romanticism “We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak with our own minds…A nation of men will for the first.

The American Renaissance: Romanticism and Transcendentalism Thomas Cole, The Falls of the Kaaterskill, 1826.

“A Growing Nation” We will walk with our own feet we will work with our own hands we will speak our own minds -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Beginnings of an American Culture ArtMusicLiterature.

Am. Lit. Notebook 1.Favorite horror/mystery books or movies? 2.What makes a good horror story? 3.Why are crazy people interesting? 4.What creates tension.

American Romanticism Major Authors William Cullen Bryant, Holmes, Whittier, Longfellow, and Lowell are Romantic poets Washington Irving is.

American Romanticism English 10 Mr. McNealey.

1800s-American Literature

ROMANTICISM and TRANSCENDENTALISM ( )

American Romanticism

Romantic Period ( ).

AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

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

Transcendentalism A movement in literature during the

American Literature An Introduction.

Romanticism English III.

American Romanticism Industrialization War of 1812

CATEGORY TWO: SOCIAL INFLUENCES/CULTURE.

American Arts Chapter 13-2 Pages

Nationalism & Sectionalism in art, literature & language

American Romanticism.

Important American Writers

Age of Romanticism ( ).

19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE

ROMANTICISM PERIOD.

The New American Culture: Art, Literature, Transcendentalism

Romanticism An Introduction.

Literary Movements: Age of Enlightenment (Age of Reason):

Romanticism English III.

Presentation transcript:

Romantic Period of American Literature

4 Characteristics of Romantic Lit. The Distant: Remote settings of time and location Nature: description of beauty, escape from society Individualism: person/human has complete power, individual is center of focus Imagination: use of the supernatural

Sub-Categories of Romanticism Romantics: focus on freedom of expression and imaginationRomantics: focus on freedom of expression and imagination Washington Irving, Emily DickinsonWashington Irving, Emily Dickinson Dark Romantics: focus on supernatural and complexities of death/afterworldDark Romantics: focus on supernatural and complexities of death/afterworld Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel HawthorneEdgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne Transcendentalists: focus on nature and renewing power of natureTranscendentalists: focus on nature and renewing power of nature Transcend = to move beyond/to be superiorTranscend = to move beyond/to be superior Henry Thoreau, Ralph Emerson, Walt WhitmanHenry Thoreau, Ralph Emerson, Walt Whitman

Major Works  Washington Irving: “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”  Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems  Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” and “The Masque of the Red Death”  Henry Thoreau: “Walden”  Ralph Emerson: “Nature”

Historical Context 1800s Westward Expansion: Gold Rush Division of North and South due to industrialization and slavery issues Immigration on a large scale (5 million Europeans from ) Technology advances: railroads, telegraphs, steel plow, reaping machine