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consider the to be the "dark" romantics or gothic) *Hold readers' attention through dread of a series of terrible possibilities *Feature landscapes of dark forests, extreme vegetation, concealed ruins with horrific rooms, depressed characters * Idealists * Self-reliance & individualism * Emerson & Thoreau Anti-Transcendentalists: * Used symbolism to great effect *Sin, pain, & evil * Poe, Hawthorne, & Melville Today in literature we still see stories of the persecuted young girl forced apart from her true love Today in literature we still read of people seeking the true beauty in life and in nature . a belief in true love and contentment Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Black Cat" REALISM 1855-1900 (Period of Civil War and Postwar period) Novels and stories Objective narrator Does not tell reader how to interpret story Dialogue includes voices from around the country Social realism: aims to change a specific social problem Aesthetic realism: art that insists on detailing the world as one sees it Civil War brings demand for a "truer" type of literature that does not idealize people or places Writings of Bierce, Crane The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (some say 1st modern novel) Regional like: The Awakening. Ethan Frome, and My Antonia (some say modern)
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