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American Romanticism

American Romanticism . 1800-1860. “Romanticism,” derives from Romance – a story that is adventuristic and improbable. Romantic writers saw themselves as revolting against the “Age of Reason” and its values. Romanticism begins in the U.S. with writings from Irving and Emerson.

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American Romanticism

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  1. American Romanticism 1800-1860

  2. “Romanticism,” derives from Romance – a story that is adventuristic and improbable. • Romantic writers saw themselves as revolting against the “Age of Reason” and its values. • Romanticism begins in the U.S. with writings from Irving and Emerson.

  3. American Romantics tend to worship nature as a sanctum of non-artificality, where the self can fulfill potential. (How is this different than the Puritans and from the Age of Reason?) Casper David Friedrich’s “The Wanderer above the sea of fog”

  4. American Romantics will use symbols, myths, or fantastic elements as the focus and expression of the protagonist’s mental processes or to convey deeper psychological or archetypal themes. John Everett Milais’s “Ophelia”

  5. The obsession and celebration of individualism takes on a particular social relevance because U.S. culture has always prized individualism and egalitarianism. • One is no longer part of a traditional, Old World hierarchy • Everyone is given a chance to maximize one’s own worth • It is key that American Romantics can both celebrate the “common man” and their own, more spiritually/psychologically elite selves.

  6. The Clove Catskills by Thomas Cole 1827

  7. Theodore Gericault’s “The Raft of the Medusa”

  8. What characteristics in the painting “The Raft of the Medusa” qualify the work as Romantic?

  9. William Wordsworth- "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802" Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty; This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

  10. What characteristics in the poem “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802” qualify the work as Romantic?

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