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❖ Romanticism, a term that is associated with imagination and boundlessness, as contrasted with classicism, which is commonly associated with reason and restriction. A romantic attitude may be detected in literature of any period, but as an historical movement it arose in the 18th and 19th centuries, in reaction to more rational literary, philosophic, artistic, religious, and economic standards.... The most clearly defined romantic literary movement in the U. S. was Transcendentalism.
II. The reasons on the rise of American Romanticism
❖ Internal cause源自:1) American burgeoned into a political, economic and cultural independence. Democracy and political equality became the ideals of the new nation. Radical changes came about in the political life of the country. Parties began to squabble and scramble for power, and new system was in the making.
3) Ever-increasing magazines played an important role in facilitating literary expansion in the country.
❖ External causes:
1) Foreign influences added incentive to the growth of romanticism in America.
2) The spread of industrialism, the sudden influx of immigration, and the pioneers pushing the frontier further west, all these produced something of an economic boon and, with it, a tremendous sense of optimism and hope among the people.
2) The influence of Sir Walter Scott was particularly powerful and enduring.
III. Characteristics of American Romanticism (b)
1) Sentimentalism, primitivism and the cult of the noble savage
civilization 6) Interest in the picturesque past and remote places 7) Antiquarianism 8) Individualism 9) Morbid melancholy 10) Historical romance
❖ The representatives of the early period includes Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper, and those of the late period contain Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe.
American Literature
Lecture Three
030533/4/5, 26th Sep. 2006
The American Romanticism (I)
I. What is Romanticism
❖ Simply speaking, Romanticism is a literary movement flourished as a cultural force throughout the 19th C and it can be divided into the early period and the late period. Also it remains powerful in contemporary literature and art.
2) Political liberalism 3) The celebration of natural beauty and the simple life 4) Introspection 5) The idealization of the common man, uncorrupted by
❖ The representatives of the early period includes Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper, and those of the late period contain Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe.
II. The reasons on the rise of American Romanticism
❖ Internal cause源自:1) American burgeoned into a political, economic and cultural independence. Democracy and political equality became the ideals of the new nation. Radical changes came about in the political life of the country. Parties began to squabble and scramble for power, and new system was in the making.
3) Ever-increasing magazines played an important role in facilitating literary expansion in the country.
❖ External causes:
1) Foreign influences added incentive to the growth of romanticism in America.
2) The spread of industrialism, the sudden influx of immigration, and the pioneers pushing the frontier further west, all these produced something of an economic boon and, with it, a tremendous sense of optimism and hope among the people.
2) The influence of Sir Walter Scott was particularly powerful and enduring.
III. Characteristics of American Romanticism (b)
1) Sentimentalism, primitivism and the cult of the noble savage
civilization 6) Interest in the picturesque past and remote places 7) Antiquarianism 8) Individualism 9) Morbid melancholy 10) Historical romance
❖ The representatives of the early period includes Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper, and those of the late period contain Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe.
American Literature
Lecture Three
030533/4/5, 26th Sep. 2006
The American Romanticism (I)
I. What is Romanticism
❖ Simply speaking, Romanticism is a literary movement flourished as a cultural force throughout the 19th C and it can be divided into the early period and the late period. Also it remains powerful in contemporary literature and art.
2) Political liberalism 3) The celebration of natural beauty and the simple life 4) Introspection 5) The idealization of the common man, uncorrupted by
❖ The representatives of the early period includes Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper, and those of the late period contain Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe.