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The Essence of Romanticism: Nature, Emotion, Individuality, Imagination, and Idealism

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Romanticism, spanning from 1800 to 1860, is an influential movement in art and literature characterized by a deep connection to nature, fervent emotions, individual expression, boundless imagination, and a sense of idealism. Artists and writers sought to harmonize with nature, prioritizing intuitive emotions over logic. This period championed the unique self, ideals of perfectibility, and the creative power of the imagination. The movement also embraced the supernatural and the grotesque, while promoting the concept of Manifest Destiny for America, suggesting a destined expansion toward a brighter future.

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The Essence of Romanticism: Nature, Emotion, Individuality, Imagination, and Idealism

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  1. Romanticism A movement in Art and Literature 1800-1860

  2. Characterized by 5 Points • Nature • Emotion • Individual • Imagination • Idealism

  3. Nature • Seek Harmony with Nature and experience the Supernatural • Inspired Creator rather than technical master • A celebration of untamed nature • Often presented as itself a work of art, constructed by a divine imagination • Moving away from corruption, limits, and civilization

  4. Emotion • Intuition is more important than logic • Emotions are valued over reason • It is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” Wordsworth

  5. Individual • Man is the center of the universe • A desire to express and find one’s own self • Perfectibility of man and ultimately society • The unique, even the eccentric

  6. Imagination • Freedom of the mind is “in” • Reason is “out” • The ultimate “shaping” of our creative power • We not only perceive the world around us, but also in part create it. • Every day versus the Exotic

  7. Idealism • We can make the world a better place! • Emphasize the spirit, mind, and language over matter

  8. Overview • It isn’t always defined by the “pretty”, which it can be • But, define by the grotesque, supernatural, absurd and odd • Individuality and Imagination take people to new places

  9. Manifest Destiny • America is destined for better deeds. We have no interest in the scenes of antiquity, only as lessons of avoidance of nearly all their examples. The expansive future is our arena, and for our history. We are entering on its untrodden space, with the truths of God in our minds, beneficent objects in our hearts, and with a clear conscience unsullied by the past. We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march? Providence is with us, and no earthly power can. We point to the everlasting truth on the first page of our national declaration, and we proclaim to the millions of other lands, that "the gates of hell" -- the powers of aristocracy and monarchy -- "shall not prevail against it." Who, then, can doubt that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity?

  10. Manifest Destiny • "expansion, prearranged by Heaven” • A future event accepted as inevitable • Freedoms and ideals of the United States had far reaching importance and needed to be brought to new lands • As a nation we were and still are constantly moving forward and outward and Manifest Destiny helps define this movement

  11. Manifest Destiny

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