Creates common agreement issues National mission and the American character Tells readers how to interpret what they are reading to encourage Revolutionary War support Instructive in values ROMANTICISM Character sketches Value feeling and intuition Expansion of Washington Irving's over reasoning magazines, "Rip Van Winkle" newspapers, and 1800-1860 Slave narratives book publishing Journey away from corruption William Cullen of civilization and limits of Bryant's "Thanatopsis" Poetry rational thought toward the Slavery debates integrity of nature and Dunbar's "We Wear the Short stories freedom of the imagination Industrial revolution Mask" brings ideas that the Helped instill proper gender "old ways" of doing Poems of Emily behavior for men and women things are now Dickinson irrelevant Allowed people to re-imagine Poems of Walt the American past Whitman AMERICAN RENAISSANCE/ Poetry Transcendentalists: Today in literature we Poems and essays of still see portrayals of Emerson & Thoreau alluring antagonists TRANSCENDENTALISM Short Stories *True reality is spiritual whose evil Thoreau's Walden characteristics appeal Novels *Comes from18th century 1840-1860 to one's sense of awe philosopher Immanuel Kant Aphorisms of Emerson and Thoreau (Note overlap in time period Anti-Transcendentalists with Romanticism -- some
Creates common agreement issues National mission and the American character Tells readers how to interpret what they are reading to encourage Revolutionary War support Instructive in values ROMANTICISM 1800-1860 Character sketches Slave narratives Poetry Short stories Value feeling and intuition over reasoning Journey away from corruption of civilization and limits of rational thought toward the integrity of nature and freedom of the imagination Helped instill proper gender behavior for men and women Allowed people to re-imagine the American past Expansion of magazines, newspapers, and book publishing Slavery debates Industrial revolution brings ideas that the "old ways" of doing things are now irrelevant Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" Poems of Emily Dickinson Poems of Walt Whitman AMERICAN RENAISSANCE/ TRANSCENDENTALISM 1840-1860 (Note overlap in time period with Romanticism -- some Poetry Short Stories Novels Anti-Transcendentalists Transcendentalists: *True reality is spiritual *Comes from18th century philosopher Immanuel Kant Today in literature we still see portrayals of alluring antagonists whose evil characteristics appeal to one's sense of awe Poems and essays of Emerson & Thoreau Thoreau's Walden Aphorisms of Emerson and Thoreau
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