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American Renaissance/Romanticism period of American Literature - 1800-1855
Content:
- writing that can be interpreted 2 ways, on the surface for common folk or in depth for philosophical readers
- sense of idealism
- focus on the individual's inner feelings
- emphasis on the imagination over reason and intuition over facts
- urbanization versus nostalgia for nature
- burden of the Puritan past
Genre/Style:
- literary tale
- character sketch
- slave narratives,
- political novels
- poetry
- transcendentalism
Effect:
- helps instill proper gender behavior for men and women
- fuels the abolitionist movement
- allow people to re-imagine the American past
Historical Context:
- expansion of magazines, newspapers, and book publishing
- slavery debates
To find out more about a particular literature time period, click on the links below:
- American Literature through Time
- Puritan Times
- Rationalism/Age of Enlightenment
- American Renaissance/Romanticism
- Gothic
- Realism
- Naturalism
- Modernism
- Harlem Renaissance
- Postmodernism
- Contemporary
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