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1 U.S. History – Early 19th Century Art, Literature, and Language
Objective 2.02

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

3 Authors

4 Noah Webster Editor of Webster’s Dictionary, standardized English language in U.S.

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6 Washington Irving NY author – first American author appreciated by Europeans (1783 – 1859) Knickerbocker’s History of New York Also…

7 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

8 Rip Van Winkle

9 Edgar Allen Poe First American author to write horror stories (1808 – 1849) Wrote…

10 The Raven

11 The Telltale Heart

12 Nathaniel Hawthorne Early American (New England) author who promoted Puritan values and ethics (1804 – 1864) Wrote…

13 The Scarlet Letter

14 James Fenimore Cooper Early American author who helped establish an American literary tradition and American nationalism (1789 – 1851) Wrote…

15 Last of the Mohicans

16 Deerslayer

17 Transcendentalism A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.

18 Ralph Waldo Emerson Early American Transcendentalist writer, promoted a simple life based on truth found in nature, personal emotion, and imagination. (1803 – 1882) - Nature

19 Henry David Thoreau Early American transcendentalist author (Walden), practiced early form of civil disobedience. (1817 – 1862)

20 Walden

21 Civil Disobedience

22 Foreign Observer in the U.S.?
Alexis de Tocqueville French writer who expanded the idea of American democracy and advocated prison reform in America – Democracy in America

23 Democracy in America Explained American Democracy from a foreign observer’s point of view

24 Neoclassical Architecture
American attempt to copy Roman and Greek styles of architecture

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29 New Nationalists/Knickerbocker School

30 Hudson River School of Artists
Early American artists who depicted the natural and seemingly boundless wonders of the new American landscape – a distinctly American style Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, William Sidney Mount

31 Thomas Cole – Mount Edna from Taomina, 1843

32 Frederic Edwin Church - Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy, 1852

33 Asher B. Durand - View Toward the Hudson Valley, 1851

34 Albert Bierstadt - In the Mountains, 1867

35 John Frederick Kensett – Niagara Falls, 1855

36 David Johnson - Study, Franconia Mountains from West Campton, New Hampshire, c. 1861-63

37 Robert S. Duncanson - Recollections of Italy, 1864

38 John William Casilear - Lake George, 1860

39 Thomas Cole – Kaaterskill Falls, 1826

40 Asher Durand – Black Mountain from the Harbor Islands, Lake George, NY – 1875

41 Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire, The Savage State, 1834

42 Thomas Cole – Last of the Mohicans

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