AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

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AMERICAN RENAISSANCE 1840 - 1860 BUT WAIT, WHEN DID ROMANTICISM DOMINATE AMERICAN LITERATURE? 1800 - 1860 So, what’s the deal? American Renaissance existed inside of Romanticism Both are similar – Renaissance has just a few differences

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AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : AMERICAN RENAISSANCE 1840 - 1860

BUT WAIT, WHEN DID ROMANTICISM DOMINATE AMERICAN LITERATURE? : BUT WAIT, WHEN DID ROMANTICISM DOMINATE AMERICAN LITERATURE? 1800 - 1860

So, what’s the deal? : So, what’s the deal? American Renaissance existed inside of Romanticism Both are similar – Renaissance has just a few differences

Characteristics : Characteristics Romanticism plus: Will anyone be a William Shakespeare? Hawthorne & Melville Feminist movement Abolitionism Self-improvement

More Characteristics : More Characteristics Utopian society Transcendentalism – philosophy of truly experiencing life through intuition, going beyond the physical world (Emerson & Thoreau) Dark Romantics – same as transcendental but with a gothic swing (Poe)