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14 Cards in this Set
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Hudson River school |
Fredrick church, Thomas Cole, formed this school. Focused on painting the rugged unsettles Hudson valley |
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Sir Walter scott |
Most popular author in early 1800s wrote about swashbucklers in England and scottland |
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James fenimore cooper |
1st great American novalist, wrote 30 novels in 3 decades. Known as master of adventure and audience |
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Walt whitman |
Self proclaimed poet of American democracy |
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Herman mellville |
Wrote moby dick in 1851 |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
Works focused on death and violence |
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Transcendentalists |
Theory of the individual that rested on a distinction between reason and understanding |
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Ralf emerson |
Unitarian minister most famous Transcendentalists |
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Henry thoreau |
Lived in a cabin. Wanted to live a simple life |
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Resistance of civil government |
Explained thoreaus refusal by claiming that the individual personal morality had first claim kn their reactions |
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Brook farm |
Most famous of all 19th century experiments in communal living |
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Nathaniel hawthorne |
Wrote scathingly oh brook farm in several of his novels |
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Charles fourier |
Socialists ideas led to organized cooperate communists in American and drew wide attention in America |
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Robert Owen |
Founded new harmony in Indiana based upon total equality which eventually was an economics failure |
