American Individualism

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American Individualism Romanticism
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Individualism Definition

• A belief in the importance of an individual and
  the virtue of relying on yourself and personal
  independence

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The Beginning of Individualism

• End of rationalism beginning of Romanticism
• American Revolution
• French Revolution

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Definition of Romanticism

• Celebrated nature and emphasized imagination and
  emotion

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Characteristics of Romanticism

• Many experimental verse forms
• Natural diction
• Enthusiasm for the wild, irregular, or grotesque
  in nature and art
• Unrestrained imagination enthusiasm for the
  uncivilized or "natural"
• Interest in human rights
• Sympathy with animal life
• Sentimental melancholy
• Emotions

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Romantic Literary Forms

• the sentimental novel
• the ballad
• the problem novel
• the historical novel
• the Gothic romance
• the critical essay

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Individualism Authors

• Ernest Hemingway
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Herman Melville
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Walt Whitman
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Conrad Richter