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the tragedy of slavery
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1.)the greatest social achievement of the romantics was to create and in awareness of slavery and cruelty
-south view/slavery was economically necessarily -north view/slavery is moral |
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call for social reform
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1.)by the mid-19th century, many Americans had joined together to fight slavery and other social ills of the time.
2.)social ills called for -end to slavery -improve condition of workers and opportunities for women |
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nationalism vs. sectionalism
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1.)nationalism- belief that national interest should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interest in other countries.
2.)writers of this age forged a literature, entirely the nations own that reflected the national pride and optimism of the American people. 3.)sectionalism-the placing of the interest of ones own region ahead of the nation as a whole |
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romanticism-had first emerged in Europe in the late 18th century
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1.)the early romantics
-were inspired by the beauty of nature -emphasized emotions and the imagination over reason -celebrated the individual spirit 2.)early romantics included -William Cullen Bryant -Washington Irving -James Kenmore Cooper 3.)William Cullen bryant-1817 poem" thanatopsis"went a long way to establishing romanticism as the major force in the literature of mid 19th century American 4.)Washington Irving- first American writer esteemed abroad ;pioneered the short story of a literacy form; put America on The literary map 5.)James fenimore cooner-remembered for writing the first true my original American novel; wrote the leatherstocking. tales |
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the fireside poets
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1.)characteristics of fireside poets
-emphasized moral themes in work -were viewed as equals of British poets of the day 2.)Henry wadsworth Longfellow -James Russel Lowell -Oliver Wendell Holmes -John Green leaf whittier |
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transcendentalism
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1.)philosophical and literacy movement that...
-emphasized living a simple life -stressed a close relationship to nature -celebrated emotions and the imagination -stressed individualism and self reliance |
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two prominent transcendentalists
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1.)Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Walsh Emerson |
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the brooding romantics included
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A.) Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Herman Melville
B.)the brooding romantics were also called anti-transcendentalism C.)these writers used gothic elements such as grotesque characters , bizarre situations violent events in their fiction D.)characteristics of the brooding romantics -did not believe in the innate goodness of people -explored the human capacity for evil -probed the inner life of characters |
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which European authors were contemporaries of American romantic writers
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Jane Austin" pride and predjustus
Charles Dickson Karl Marx Friedrich Engels |