Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
• Intuition
• Imagination
• Individualism
HISTORY OF ROMANTICISM (AMERICAN
ROMANTIC PERIOD)
• 1830 (50 years after the Revolutionary War)
- Americans were anxious to create their own identity and
not so reliant on European values.
AMERICAN ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
CHALLENGED RATIONAL THINKING IN
AGE OF REASON.
-fewer instructional texts and more stories,
novel and poetry.
CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN
ROMANTIC PERIOD
1. Imagination and Escapism
2. Individuality
3. Nature as a source of spirituality
4. Looking to the past for wisdom
5. Seeing the common man as a hero
CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN
ROMANTIC LITERATURE
1. Imagination
and Escapism
-related to
Industrial
Revolution.
CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN
ROMANTIC LITERATURE
Escapism
-where the mind allows you to escape harsh
conditions by taking you to a place that is
purely beautiful.
Ex. (characters in romantic literature are often
journeying away from the city and into the
countryside)
-the author uses imagery.
CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN
ROMANTIC LITERATURE
WASHINGTON IRVING (FATHER OF AMERICAN LITERATURE)
-To depict the world in this way, realist writers turned away from grandiose
subject matter and instead focused on the lower middle classes depicting
daily life in gritty.
-The assumption behind this strategy was that literature had the power to
change society and that by depict life warts-and-all writers could improve
the world without being too preachy about it.
REALISM
• English literature mainly reflects the English culture, English mannerisms while American
literature mirrors American culture, its history, and revolutionary concepts such as
relationships with the church, the state, supernatural elements that emerged in the
country. E.g. Massachusetts battle.
Difference between English Literature and
American Literature
• English literature is older than the American English.