Uzbek state world languages university

Theme 2: ROMANTICISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Plan:

1. 
   The beginning of American Romanticism
   
2. 
   Washington Irving
   
3. 
   James Fennimore Cooper
   
4. 
   Nathaniel Hawthorne
   
5. 
   Edgar Allan Poe
   
6. 
   Herman Melville
   

The American bourgeois revolution worked great changes in the life of the country. Rapid progress of the industry and trade, a great abundance of free lands and the newly gained independence filled the hearts of the broad sections of people with the hope of the better future. But this bourgeois revolution failed in solving many problems. Contradictions were strong as ever; negro slavery was flourishing

in the South and Indians were mercilessly exterminated. That is the beginning of romanticism in America. The romanticists created the first important works in American literature and laid a foundation of American Literature. Representatives are Bryant, Irving, Cooper and others. Critical tendencies blended with optimistic belief in social progress. One of the major themes is nature. It was the time of courageous pioneers in penetrating into the wilderness and boundless forests and prairies. The romance of the men’s struggle against the nature and their victory inspired many American writers.