1. Romanticism Fiction Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Herman Melville

2. The Beginnings
Westward Expansion and Territorial Growth (Vt, Ky,Tn, La.)
New sense of National Pride and ID
Transportation: Railroads and steamboats
Trail of Tears-1838
Early feminist movement, abolitionism
War of 1812-Britain
Gothic architecture, paintings

3. Writers Washington Irving: 1st professional Am. Author
James Fenimore Cooper: Am. Western hero
Edgar Allan Poe: father of short story, detective
William Cullen Bryant: Major Am. poet

4. Romanticism in fiction
Focus on nature and self as well as:
Common man
Freedom
Emotions
Nationalism
Imagination
Supernatural

5. Critic of American Lit
“In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or looks at an American picture?”

6. Elements of fiction
Plot pyramid: exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
Conflict- problem (internal, external)
5 types: Man v. man, nature, self, fate, society
Characterization: What makes a character do what he or she does (actions, appearance, emotions, static or dynamic, protagonist)
Symbols
Theme and purpose

7. Point of view How story is told
First person central- narrator is major participant
First person peripheral- narrator is outside of the action describing another character(s)
Third person omniscient- all knowing narrator
Third person limited- sees into one character
Stream of consciousness- exists in present tense, consisting of thoughts passing through the mind (past, future)

8. Romanticism’s Darker Side
Some writers felt that there was a potential evil in individuals- supernatural
Gothic: Irregularity, dark elements, Medieval, stained glass, gargoyles, castles
Poe and Hawthorne
Male characters go insane and females die. People reveal their true natures under extreme situations.

9. Poe and Hawthorne
Poe: “Cask of the Amontillado,” “The Raven,” “The Bells,” “Annabel Lee,” “Masque of the Red Death,” “Tell Tale Heart,” and “Fall of the House of Usher”
Hawthorne: “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birthmark,” and House of the Seven Gables

10. European influence
Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto written in 1765
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula

11. Influence today
Hello, any horror movie you watch or read