Romantic Period

What are the dates for the Romantic period?

1800-1860

List the ideals of the Romantic writers.

Emotions, intuition, and a close life with nature

Describe Romantic novels.

Larger than life characters with big adventures set in the United States.

Describe the Romantic hero.

Morally good and virtuous. Very resourceful in nature and rejecta society and city. Always did what was right no matter the out

How is Ralph Waldo Emerson important to the Transcendentalist Movement?

Father of Transcendentalism

Who were the three most important Dark Romantic writers?

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville.

Other than writing, many of the Romantic writers also:

Abolitionists who worked for social change

List the names of the Transcendentalists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

List the ideals of the Transcendentalists.

Live a life close to nature, question common ideas of good and evil, nonconformity to society, and listen to your intuition.

What were the ideals of the Gothic (Dark Romantic) writers?

All humans are capable of evil and they looked at the influences of phsycological madness and death.

In what part of the country did these writers live in?

New England

What was Washington Irving most famous for?

America’s first internationally famous writer

Wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.