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American Romanticism 1800-1855. American Cultural Development- Search for cultural independence – For nearly 200 years, American readers had been looking.

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1 American Romanticism 1800-1855

2 American Cultural Development- Search for cultural independence – For nearly 200 years, American readers had been looking to Europe, mainly Great Britain, for most of their reading material. The North American continent offered a vast and exciting vista for American artists of all types, including writers.

3 Sunset by Thomas Moran

4 Kindred Spirits by Asher Durand This work pictures Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant, two prominent figures in American Romanticism.

5 Romanticism: An artistic movement, or a state of mind, that favors imagination over reason, and intuition over facts

6 Major Authors Edgar Allan Poe Washington Irving William Cullen Bryant

7 Imagination Power of imagination: It can apprehend truths the rational mind could not reach; these truths were usually accompanied by powerful emotion and associated with natural, unspoiled beauty. Faith in inner experience Accent on mystery and the strange and fantastic aspects of human experience

8 Nature Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature Contemplates nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development because nature reveals underlying beauty and truth Finds beauty and truth in exotic locales and the supernatural realm

9 Individuality Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual


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