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America in the 19 th Century

America in the 19 th Century. American Literature. Relationship to European literature Romantic background (nationalism, love of nature, emotion of author, liberalism, exoticism) Search for truly American work. Washington Irving. Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle

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America in the 19 th Century

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  1. America in the 19th Century

  2. American Literature • Relationship to European literature • Romantic background (nationalism, love of nature, emotion of author, liberalism, exoticism) • Search for truly American work

  3. Washington Irving • Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Rip Van Winkle • Tales of the Alhambra

  4. James Fenimore Cooper • Last of the Mohicans • The Deerslayer

  5. Nathaniel Hawthorne • The Scarlet Letter • The House of Seven Gables

  6. Herman Melville • Moby Dick

  7. Henry W. Longfellow • The Song of Hiawatha • Courtship of Miles Standish

  8. Edgar Allan Poe • Invented mystery • Dark poetry with morals • The Raven • Wife died in Baltimore • The Purloined Letter • The Tell Tale Heart • Cask of Amontillado • Pit and the Pendulum

  9. Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass • Collection of American poems

  10. “Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.” – Walt Whitman

  11. Transcendentalism • Philosophy of Immanuel Kant • Knowledge beyond the 5 sense • Intuitive truths • Nature is a source of joy • The soul is a reflection of out lives • Began a movement among Unitarians

  12. Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature • Defined American Transcendentalism • Self Reliance • Outlined principles to base decision

  13. Henry David Thoreau • Walden • Wanted to lived Emerson’s teachings • On Civil Disobedience • basic laws transcend laws of the land • American dichotomy

  14. “ Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” • Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

  15. Louisa May Alcott • Little Women

  16. Emily Dickinson • American poetess • Seclusion in Massachusetts • 1700 poems, only 7 published during lifetime • Theme: interaction between self and world

  17. Westward Settlement • Before 1820 • Driving force was economic improvement • Acquisition of Louisiana • War 1812 • Transportation

  18. Westward Settlement • After 1820 • Slavery • Promotion of common man • Pioneers • Immigration form Europe • Manifest Destiny • Homestead Act

  19. American Civil War • Causes • Conduct of the war • Results • Northern domination • Republican party and Lincoln

  20. “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one.” • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1935)

  21. "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax." – Lincoln, Abraham, quoted in Thorpe, Scott, How to Think Like Einstein, Barnes & Noble Books, Inc., 2000, p.130.

  22. Inventors • Benjamin Franklin • Bifocals • Odometer • Stove • Electricity defined

  23. “You are welcome to use the school room to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the Word of God about them. If God had designated that His intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of 15 miles and hour, He would have foretold it through His holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to Hell.” — President Martin Van Buren, 1830 in Ohio Inventors (Not all agreed)

  24. “Those tremendously useful men, those powerful and invincible men, Marconi, Edison, Orville Wright, Burbank, who sit wrapped in purple robes of creative genius, are simply men who are capable of striking reiterated blows. They are men who reached success because they subjected themselves to the fierce fires of intellectual and physical endeavor. Men never ascend to eminence by a single leap or by growth overnight. Longfellow gave us this: ‘The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.’” — Spencer W. Kimball

  25. Inventors • Eli Whitney—Cotton Gin • Robert Fulton—Steam Boat • Cyrus McCormick—Reaper • Samuel F. B. Morse—Telegraph • Charles Goodyear—Rubbervulcanization • Elias Howe—Sewing machine • Edwin Drake—Oil wells • Alexander Graham Bell—Telephone

  26. Inventors • Thomas Edison

  27. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” • Thomas Alva Edison

  28. "Hell, there are not rules here–we're trying to accomplish something." – Edison, Thomas A., quoted in Thorpe, Scott, How to Think Like Einstein, Barnes & Noble Books, Inc., 2000, p. 124.

  29. Industrialization • Fisk and Gould—Stock market speculation • Rockefeller—Standard Oil • Pulitzer & Hearst—Newspaper • Harriman—NY Central Railroad • Carnegie—Steel • Henry Ford—Automobile, production line • E.I. DuPont—Gunpowder, plastic, chemical • Sloan—General Motors

  30. The Uniqueness (Creativity) of America • Founded on a principle rather than as a ethnic homeland • What is the principle?

  31. "Is life so sweet, or peace so dear, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" – Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775, Virginia

  32. "They that give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." – Benjamin Franklin

  33. "God help us, as free men, to recognize the source of our blessings, the threat to our freedom and our moral and spiritual standards, and the need for humble, yet courageous, action to preserve these priceless, time-tested blessings, I humbly pray..." – Ezra Taft Benson, "Watchman, Warn the Wicked", Ensign, July 1973, p. 38

  34. Thank You

  35. "What actually happened was that the American West developed highly characteristic technologies for daily life. We all know the texture today: log cabins, windmills, card games, heavy horse-drawn wagons, whiskey, large saddles, and...death by hanging. Historian Lynn White pointed out a startling feature of all these technologies and their link to the Middle Ages [and not to the earlier Roman or later Industrial Revolution technologies]....The technologies of the 11th through the 15th centuries were wonderfully direct, practical and inventive, and so too were the immigrants to the American West. Medieval life and western life were open to variety and change. What the Old West really did was to mirror medieval life accurately, because it was populated by free and inventive people who knew how to adapt to new circumstances." – John Lienhard, The Engines of Our Ingenuity, p.14.

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