Nationalism & Sectionalism in art, literature & language

1. Nationalism & Sectionalism in art, literature & language Goal 2—2.02

2. Created the American Dictionary Noah Webster

3. Transcendentalism • Literary & philosophical movement that focused on: • Living a simple life • Communing with nature • Human dignity & imagination • Opposed slavery • Did not trust organized religion

4. Ralph Waldo EmersonTranscendentalist writer

5. Transcendentalist writer Lived in solitude at Walden Pond Practiced Civil Disobedience by not paying his taxes during the Mexican War Henry David Thoreau

6. American short story writer “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” “Rip Van Winkle” Wrote about New England / Hudson River area Washington Irving

7. American romantic novelist/poet Tell Tale Heart The Raven Edgar Allan Poe

8. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

9. Last of the Mohicans Leatherstocking Tales Wrote about the American Frontier James Fennimore Cooper

10. Example of American Renaissance Architecture American Style Neoclassical Architecture

11. Painted the beauty of the American landscape Hudson River School of Art

12. Studied American democracy Was outraged by the American prison system Alex de Tocqueville—French Writer