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American Romanticism was a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that emerged in the United States during the early 19th century, emphasizing emotion, individualism, and the beauty of nature.
29 lis 2017 · The major American Romantics included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Herman Melville. While some of these writers were influenced by European Romantics and philosophers, nearly all of them were inspired by a nationalistic concern to develop an indigenous cultural tradition and a ...
7 gru 2017 · In the mid-1850s, as the United States was beginning to shape its own identity within the realm of literature, American Romanticism emerged. This literary movement holds unique importance to American history because it is known to be the first, full-fledged literary movement of America.
Romanticism’s philosophy encompasses two distinct concepts of natural beauty: sublimity and picturesqueness. Sublimity refers to the landscape’s ability to overwhelm the body with emotion by reflecting nature’s violence and terror, to “excite a vision of the Divine Creation.”
Romanticism, a movement emphasizing individual self-expression and emotional power in the arts, has left a profound influence on today's culture. Its focus on individualism and emotional...
American literary critics today continue to talk about Romanticism—or when the upper case noun becomes a lower case adjective (as in, "the ro mantic novel," or, most often, "romantic poetry"), or even when it is
Colonial Romanticism begins in the perception of a acts upon new principles," possible only amid the New World. During the Revolution and in the earliest new principles became more definitely and confession of faith of a new society. . . . In the first stages, then, American Romanticism was. French, or German.