Isn't it Romantic?...

H. American Romanticism 1800 - 1855

The Declaration of Independence takes us to a journey through the countryside as we study the Romantic writers: Irving, Cooper and Poe .

• Expansion of book publishing, magazines, newspaper
• Industrial Revolution
• Abolitionist movement
• Short stories, Novels, Poetry
• Imagination over Reason; Intuition over Fact
• Focuses on the FANTASTIC of the human experience
• Gothic literature: use of supernatural, characters have evil and good sides, dark landscapes; depressed characters (the "Dark Side")

Washington Irving , Father of American Literature - 
"The Devil and Tom Walker".

James Fennimore Cooper, Father of the American novel -

 The Leatherstocking Tales,   The Deerslayer ,  film clip from Last of the Mohicans- 
                       the American Hero is introduced.

• *Identify how the main character is a hero?
• *How has the American hero changed from Cooper's novels?
• * How has the American hero remained the same?

Poe, inventor of American Short Story -  (a dark romantic)
          "The Masque of Red Death", "The Fall of the House of Usher"..

 Assignment:  What does it mean to be an American based on the literature of
                      the Romantic  Period? 

WHERE ARE YOU IN YOUR JOURNEY? 
Do you like the literature of the  Romantic Period? Are you a romantic at heart????

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