The Emergence of American Literature, Philosophy, and Art and Scientific Attitudes

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The Emergence of American Literature, Philosophy,
and Art and Scientific Attitudes
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Painting

• Portraiture
• Historical Scenes
• Landscapes Hudson River School

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Painting-2

• Indian and Western Scenes
• Art Reproductions
• Sculpture

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Hudson River School
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Hudson River School
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Hudson River School
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Music

• Symphony Orchestra
• Choral Societies
• Music Schools

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Music-2

• Music Periodicals
• Patriotic Songs
• American Composers and Musicians

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Search for a national language

• Dictionary of the English language
• Noah Webster

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Literary works

• Continued preference for English authors
• William Shakespeare most popular
• Writers on the American scene
• First American Authors

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Literary works

• First American Authors
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Emily Dickinson
• Washington Irving
• James Fennimore Cooper

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Literary works

• First American Authors
• Walt Whitman
• Henry David Thoreau
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Herman Melville
• Edgar Allan Poe

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Literary works

• 1830s- Cheap paperbacks and newspapers were
  available for the first time

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History

• Search for Heroes and a national history
• Washington
• Founding Fathers

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History-2

• National Historians
• Foreigners Observations
• Alexis de Tocqueville-1830

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Transcendentalism

• Origins
• Components
• Influence