1. Chapter 04
An American
Renaissance
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2. Contents 1 2 3 4 VOCA BACK GROUND KEY WORD 1.Emerson 2.Thoreau
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BACK GROUND
KEY WORD
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1.Emerson
2.Thoreau
3.Hawthorne
4.Melville
5.Poe
WRITERS

3. Vocabulary
Intellectual [Adj] - connected with or using a person’s ability to think in a
logical way and understand things
Patriotism [N] - love of your country and willingness to defend it
Intuition [N] - the ability to know something by using your feelings rather
than considering the facts
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Allegory [N] - a story, play, picture, etc.
in which each character or event is a symbol representing
an idea or a quality, such as truth, evil, death, etc.;
the use of such symbols
Primitive [Adj] - belonging to an early stage of technical development

4. Back Ground 1830s~1840s New spiritual era Transcendentalism
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Transcendentalism
Romanticism
An American Renaissance

5. Key Word
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
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Transcendentalists

6. Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1803~1882 - essayist, lecturer, and poet
- founded the “Transcendental Club”
- Wrote about nature in the abstract
Works
Nature(1836)
Self-Reliance(1841)
The Over-Soul(1841)
The Poet(1844)

7. Writers Henry David Thoreau - 1817~1862
- Deeply influenced by reading Nature
- Similar opinions with Emerson
- Wrote about nature in the detail
Works
Civil Disobedience(1849)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
Walden(1854)

8. Writers Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1804~1864
- Opposed the Transcendentalists
- Writes about man in society
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Works
The Celestial Railroad(1843)
Fanshawe(1828)
Twice-Told Tales(1837)
Mosses from an Old Manse(1846)
Young Goodman Brown(1835)
The Snow Image(1851)
The Scarlet Letter(1850)
House of the Seven Gables(1851)

9. Writers Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
House of the Seven Gables
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10. Writers Herman Melville - 1819~1891 - Has a tragic view of life
- Became a sailor at age twenty
- Moves from allegory to symbolism
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Works
Typee(1846) Omoo(1847)
Mardi(1849) Redburn(1849)
White-Jacket(1850) Moby-Dick(1851)
Pierre(1852)
Bartleby the Scrivener(1853)

11. Writers
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
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12. Writers Edgar Allan Poe - 1809~1849
- More romantic in language and imagery
- The short story, literary criticism, and poetry
- Tales of horror are known throughout the world
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Works
MS Found in a Bottle(1833)
The Fall of the House of Usher(1839)
Ligeia(1838)
The Bells(1840)
The Black Cat(1843)
The Raven(1845)
Ulalume(1847)

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