1. WWYD? If you could go back in time and start ninth grade over again,
what philosophy might you adopt to make the most of it?

2. Philosophy Includes a system of thought, a theory, a point of view
Provides a helpful lens to analyze literature
How to look
Explains how history and literature change and affect each other

3. Journal Entry: What do you observe in this painting?

4. Romanticism in American Literature

5. In the Age of Reason, People…
Valued:
clarity, order and balance
tradition and resisted change
Believed:
Nature has laws to learn
Emphasized:
Reason over the imagination
Social, common good over the individual
Wrote:
Literature to teach

6. Process Slide
How could you visualize The Enlightenment?

7. Romanticism broke away from these ideals

8. During the Romantic Era, People Valued…
Wonder
Mystery
Intuition

9. During the Romantic Era, People Believed…
Nature is kind to man, given to us by God
Individuals and society could improve

10. During the Romantic Era, People Emphasized…
Imagination over:
reason
fact and the actual
formal rules
Individual over:
society

11. During the Romantic Era, People Wrote…
During the 18th and 19th century movement- pre-civil war
To build America’s first great creative period

12. During the Romantic Era, Writers…
Stressed human causes
Loved the past, picturesque, exotic, and times and places
Captured Nationalism and love of country

13. During the Romantic Era, Writers included…
Bryant
Irving
James Fennimore Cooper
Hawthorne
Melville
Stowe
Poets: Poe, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Whitman
Harriet beecher stowe- uncle toms cabin
Rip van winkle

14. During the Romantic Era, Writers Created … the Romantic Hero
Likely to have some or all of the following characteristics:
Youth (or childlike)
Innocence
Love of nature and distrust of town life
Uneasiness with women
Need to engage in a quest for higher truth
Not really into relationships
Wants to feel fulfilled

15. Nothing about “love”….
THEY ARE NOT LOVE STORIES!

16. Process Slide
How could you visualize Romanticism?

17. How might this painting represent the differences between the Enlightenment and Romanticism?