1. 19th Century Literature AP Language and Composition

2. History Rapid growth: national pride/awareness Transportation, westward movement Era of the common man Technology--frontier settlement/instant communication Prosperity=competition, cause and effect--child labor, unsafe working conditions

3. Literature  Quest of the individual to define himself-- WHO AM I?  Personal, bold, unique to individual

4. Romantics  Elevated imagination over reason/intuition over fact  Reveled in nature  Exaggerated the fantastic aspects of reality (Poe)

5. Transcendentalists  Flourished in New England  The understanding a person gains intuitively because it lies beyond direct experience  Real truths lie outside the experience of the senses-- resides in the Over-Soul (God, but not really)  Emerson and Thoreau

6. The Darker Side  Hawthorne  Melville  Life in grim terms  Hawthorne  Melville  Life in grim terms

7. Poetry  Dickinson  Fireside Poets: popular at that time  Walt Whitman: irregular forms, frank language, revolutionary for this time  Dickinson  Fireside Poets: popular at that time  Walt Whitman: irregular forms, frank language, revolutionary for this time