CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTICISM...Edgar Allan Poe • Author of the first detecAve story • Most of...
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CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTICISM: The dark side Supernatural Escape from reality EmoAon ImaginaAon Nature Man’s connecAon to nature
Transcript of CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTICISM...Edgar Allan Poe • Author of the first detecAve story • Most of...
CHARACTERISTICSOFROMANTICISM:
ThedarksideSupernatural
EscapefromrealityEmoAon
ImaginaAonNature
Man’sconnecAontonature
Famouswriters:• WilliamCullenBryant,• poem“Thanatopsis”
TheFiresidePoets
JamesRussellLowell“TheFirstSnowfall”
OliverWendellHolmes“OldIronsides”
JohnGreenleafWhiOer“Snowbound”
HenryWadsworthLongfellow“APsalmofLife”“TheTideRises,TheTideFalls”
JamesFennimoreCoopernovelist
WashingtonIrvingshortstories
“RipVanWinkle”
“TheDevilandTomWalker”
RomanAcHero:reflecAonofthenewAmerica;Bold,eccentric,flawed,andsomeAmesbrooding(mysterious&
conflicted)
AmericanGothic:combinaAonofhorrorandromance;thedarksideof
mankind.DarkseOng,darkandmysteriouscharacters.
NathanielHawthorne• WrotethefirstAmericanromance:TheScarletLeZer
• Successfulandfamousshortstory“TheMinister’sBlackVeil”,forerunnertoTheScarletLeZer
• PrevalentthemeinmostofhiswriAngs:Thedarksideofhumannature.
EdgarAllanPoe• AuthorofthefirstdetecAvestory• Mostofhisworks(poetry,shortstories)canbecategorizedasAmericanGothic.
• Insigh\ulabilitytodelveintothehumanpsyche
ShortStoriestonote:• “TheTell-TaleHeart”,“TheBlackCat”,“TheFalloftheHouseofUsher”,“TheMasqueoftheRedDeath”,“TheCaskofAmanAllado”
• POETRY:“TheRaven”“AnnabelLea”
EdgarAllanPoe
Transcendentalism:emphasizedthedignityoftheindividualandthebenefitoflivingthesimplelife
HenryDavidThoreau RalphWaldoEmerson
HenryDavidThoreau:semi-autobiographicalnovelWaldenPond
“Self-Reliance”, essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist"
