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From the Common Core Standards English Language Arts Standards >> Reading: Literature >> Grade –Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foundational works of American literature, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics.

A Literary Movement Take notes when you see the pencil.

New York, mid 19 th Century

American Romanticism The Industrial Revolution brings about rapid change and wealth for some. But living conditions for most Americans were harsh and unforgiving.

American Romanticism Romantic writers (and artists) saw themselves as revolting against the "Age of Reason" ( ) and its classical values.

American Romanticism ROMANTICCLASSICAL EmotionalReasonable and Practical IndividualisticPublic Responsibility RevolutionaryConservative/Puritan Solitude & NaturePublic, Urban Life Fantasy/IntrospectionExternal Reality Right BrainLeft Brain Satisfaction of DesireDesire Repressed OrganicMechanical ExoticMundane OutcastsWealthy Family IdealisticMaterialistic

American Romanticism American Romantic writers were seeking an alternative to the world that had been created by logic and rational thought.

American Romanticism American Romantic writers were also fascinated (repulsed?) by the ideas of sin and guilt. Perhaps because early America was the scene of terrible things resulting from radical Puritan principles.

American Romanticism For example, Celebration was outlawed in Boston from 1659 to 1681.Boston Christmas celebrations were outlawed, too. As were games of chance, maypoles, and theater.

Maypoles: pure evil, according to early American Puritans.

American Romanticism And then, of course, there were the Witch Trials.

American Romanticism The American Romantics searched for new spiritual roots. They believed religion stifled the human spirit. In their writing, they sought ways to transcend the world created by rationalism, religion, sin and guilt.

American Romanticism They transcended by placing importance on feelings.

Feelings are more important than logic and facts!

The individual is more important than the masses!

American Romanticism The major American Romantic writers: 1. Edgar Allen Poe 2. Walt Whitman 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson 4. Nathanial Hawthorne 5. Emily Dickinson 6. Henry David Thoreau

American Romanticism The ideas and attitudes of these and other American Romantic writers form the core transcendental values that inspire American life today.

American Romanticism Reverence for Nature Connecting with nature is the way to rise above mundane life.

Connecting with nature

American Romanticism Optimism Looking forward to a prosperous future is a way to transcend the drudgeries of daily life.

Optimism about the future.

American Romanticism Civil Resistance Peaceful, organized resistance to unjust laws is the path to a more perfect future.

Civil disobedience

American Romanticism Plumbing the psychological depths. Exploring our dark side is the path to deeper understanding of life.

Journeys to the dark side of the human soul.

Summary Romantic literature is the opposite of classical literature. The American romantic movement was a rejection of the industrial revolution and puritan religious values.

Summary American Romantic writers transcended the norms of their day, in search of new frontiers, both physical and psychological.

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