1. The Birth of American Literature and Art
Entering High Society
The Birth of American Literature and Art

2. Romanticism Style of writing that stressed the Individual,
Imagination,
Creativity,
and Emotion.
Drew most inspiration from nature

3. Technical Writing Noah Webster Published
American Dictionary of the English Language
In 1828 to include American spelling and slang

4. Using the brush
Many artists began to shift from painting people to landscapes, attempting to capture the American west.
Many Slave artists emerged in physical arts; pottery, basket weaving, and quilts

6. Age of Philosophy

7. Spiritual world is more important than the physical one.
Transcendentalism
Spiritual world is more important than the physical one.

8. Let your conscience be your guide
Ralph Waldo Emerson – learn life from self-examination and nature.
Henry David Thoreau – People should live by their own individual standards

9. Rather than violence, people should peacefully refuse to obey laws.
Civil Disobedience
Rather than violence, people should peacefully refuse to obey laws.

10. Examples that are still around
Edgar Allen Poe – “Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Herman Melville – Moby Dick
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter
Emily Dickenson – Poet
James Fenimore Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans