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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)