1. Answer the following based on the image above: What is the artist trying to emphasize in this painting? What can we tell about art during this period based on this painting? Based on your knowledge of social studies, how is this painting different from the art during early periods of US history/European art?

2. Nationalism in Literature & Art 1801-1850

3. Noah Webster America should record its own form of English.America should record its own form of English. Became obvious as nationalism grew.Became obvious as nationalism grew. American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828.American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828.

4. Noah Webster

5. Literary Renaissance Occurred in the early to mid 1800s.Occurred in the early to mid 1800s. Americans beginning to form national and regional identity – wanted to write about it.Americans beginning to form national and regional identity – wanted to write about it. Romanticism: artistic, literary, and philosophical movement that began in Europe, which greatly influenced authors during this period.Romanticism: artistic, literary, and philosophical movement that began in Europe, which greatly influenced authors during this period. Commitment to individual experiencesCommitment to individual experiences Inherent goodness of the individualInherent goodness of the individual Feelings & emotions instead of reason & intellectFeelings & emotions instead of reason & intellect Gave rise to transcendentalism - emphasizing a personal religious experience with God & natureGave rise to transcendentalism - emphasizing a personal religious experience with God & nature

6. TranscendentalistsTranscendentalists – – inherent goodness of both people and nature. Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual. Other Romantic authorsOther Romantic authors –wrote of American & individual identity and American culture; individual experiences

7. Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson – Nature (1836) Henry David Thoreau – must fight the pressure to conform to society Mark Twain-Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer; exploring the struggle between individual identity and pressures of society Think of them as hippies of the 1800s.

8. Emerson Thoreau

9. Romantic Authors Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter –Ideas of Puritan society Edgar Allen PoeEdgar Allen Poe –Terror and Mystery

10. Romantic authors cont. James Fennimore Cooper – Last of the Mohicans –Wrote of Native Americans & the American frontier/landscape Washington Irving – “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

11. Alex de Tocqueville Not American but wanted to write about it. Wrote Democracy in America – told of his journeys through America Explained how the social conditions impacted both the individual and gov’t

12. Art Hudson River School—group of artists beginning in the 1820s known for landscape paintings, led by Thomas ColeHudson River School—group of artists beginning in the 1820s known for landscape paintings, led by Thomas Cole George Caleb Bingham—art of ordinary AmericansGeorge Caleb Bingham—art of ordinary Americans

13. Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, 1836

14. George Caleb Bingham, Raftsmen Playing Cards, 1847

15. Literature Pamphlet

16. Pamphlet Instructions You are to make a pamphlet of the major figures (artist & writers) of this time period. Foldable must include: –Name of individual –Major Works (books, pieces of art, etc.) –Significance –1 or more images/illustrations –Works cited (list of websites where you got your information)

17. Choose ONE of the following: –Washington Irving –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow –Ralph Waldo Emerson –Henry David Thoreau –Margaret Fuller –Edgar Allan Poe –Thomas Cole –Albert Bierstadt –George Caleb Bingham –Frederic Edwin Church –Thomas Moran –Walt Whitman