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Title: The Romantic Period


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The Romantic Period
  • The Romantics

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Historical data 1790-1860
  • Incredible growth and expansion after the
    Revolutionary War
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Need to create American identity
  • Distinct cultural life
  • Significant literary tradition

3
Philosophical dataattitude toward God
  • God is within man
  • Man told to follow his conscience or emotions
  • A concern with the darker side of man
  • Concern with the supernatural, the devil and his
    influence

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Attitude toward man
  • Each man is different
  • Emphasis on individual emotions/feelings
  • Disorder in the imagination
  • Each man is important
  • Isolation from each other is possible
  • Pursuit of the strange

5
Attitude toward society
  • Pride in countrys past
  • Pride in nations accomplishments
  • Growth in and experimentation with music, art,
    and literature

6
Types of literature
  • Short story invented
  • First used by Irving
  • Mastered by Poe
  • gave rise to the detective story
  • poetry

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Impact of the literature
  • Created a uniquely American art form
  • Caused the premium on creative imagination
  • Emphasized the Gothic
  • Medievalism
  • Sensationalism
  • Supernatural
  • The macabre
  • Isolation
  • Irrational

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Impact on the American character
  • American superiority
  • Value placed on imagination
  • Realization of a darker side to man
  • Defined American Dream as possible
  • Increased literate public
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