AMERICAN ROMATICISM
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AMERICAN ROMATICISM
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WHAT IS AMERICAN ROMATICISM?
HOW DID IT INFLUENCE LITERATURE?
HOW DID IT AFFECT OTHER ASPECTS OF LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES?
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ISM
• 1800-1860• LITERARY AND CULTURAL MOVEMENT •REVOLT AGAINST THE ENLIGHTENMENT• PLACED IMPORTANCE ON EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO NATURE.•RANGED FROM TREPIDATION, HORROR AND TERROR, AND AWE AND WONDER
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ROMANTICISM
• IMAGINATION• INTUITION• SPONTANEITY • INDIVIDUALISM• “HEROIC ISOLATION” • PSYCHOLOGY• SUPERNATURAL
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RO
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NTIC
ISM •OPTIMISM AND
INDIVIDUALISM•WORLD IS ALWAYS IMPROVING•ORDINARY PEOPLE CAN BETTER THEMSELVES, THEIR POLITICAL SYSTEM AND SOCIETY
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•KINSHIP WITH NATURE•A CLOSE LINK BETWEEN HUMANS AND NATURE• INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY THREATENED THE NATURAL WORLD AND ISOLATED PEOPLE FROM IT
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RO
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ISM •POWER OF
DARKNESS•FASCINATION WITH DISEASE, MADNESS, DEATH, EVIL, THE SUPERNATURAL•HIGHLIGHTS THE DESTRUCTIVE ASPECTS OF NATURE
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WHAT FORCES SHAPED THIS PERIOD?
•ARRIVAL OF EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM•OUTBURST OF REFORM MOVEMENTS•SPREAD OF INDUSTRY•INCREASING SECTIONAL CONFLICT
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON• CENTRAL FIGURE OF
AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
• REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS:– INDIVIDUALISM–CLAIMS ABOUT THE
DIVINE–ATTACKS ON SOCIETY
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON• 1803-1882• FATHER UNITARIAN
MINISTER AND MOTHER A DEVOUT ANGLICAN
• FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS 8-YEARS-OLD AND MOTHER OPENED A BOARDING HOUSE TO SUPPORT FAMILY
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON• ENTERED
HARVARD AT 14-YEARS-OLD
• STUDIED AT HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL
• ORDAINED MINISTER BY 1829
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON• IN 1831, WIFE
ELLEN TUCKER DIED SUDDENLY
• SHOOK HIS ALREADY QUESTIONING FAITH
• LEFT THE CHURCH TO BECOME A WRITER
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON• 1833 – MOVED TO
CONCORD, MASS. AND STARTED WRITING NATURE. – IT WOULD BE ONE OF HIS
MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS.
– PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY
• REMARRIED 2 YEARS LATER AND HAD 4 CHILDREN.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON• GAINED FAME ON THE
LECTURE CIRCUIT– THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR– HARVARD DIVINITY
SCHOOL ADDRESS
• BOTH REJECTED ORGANIZED RELIGION AND RESULTED IN A BAN FROM HARVARD FOR 30 YEARS.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON• HIS IDEAS ANGERED
SOME BUT EXCITED OTHERS
• IDEAS HELPED CREATE THE TRANSCENDENTAL MOVEMENT– OPTIMISM, SELF-
RELIANCE, INTUITION, IDEALISM
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON• EMERSON’S OPTIMISM
WAS CHALLENGED IN 1842 WHEN SON WALDO DIED OF SCARLET FEVER
• CO-FOUNDED THE DIAL, A TRANSCENDENTAL PUBLICATION
• INFLUENCED MANY WRITERS OF THE TIME AND FOR YEARS LATER
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SPIRIT OF THE WEST