L
ITERATURE OF THE USA
1.
American Romanticism
2.
Works of Washington Irving, Fennimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and their characteristic
features.
KEY WORDS:
ROMANTICISM
an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in 18th century
Western Europe during the Industrial Revolution.
TRASCENDENT
ALISM
transcendental philosophy. • transcendentalist n.
American Romanticism
Romanticism is characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom from social conventions or political restraints,
on human imagination, and on nature in a typically idealized form. Romantic literature rebelled against the formalism of
18th century reason.
The period 1828
‐
1865 in American Literature is commonly identified as the
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