romanticism: 1800-1860
Period Characteristics:
I. Genre/Style
A. Poetry, character sketches, slave narratives, and short stories
B. Highly imaginative and subjective
C. Emotional, individualistic, and revolutionary
D. Fantasy/introspection
E. Formal language
II. Functions
A. Emphasize feeling, idealism, inductive reasoning, and intuition
III. Themes
A. Emotional intensity
B. Escapism
C. Common man as hero
D. Nature as a refuge and source of knowledge and/or spirituality
E. Universe as perplexing and irrational
Famous Authors and Works:
1839: "The Fall of the House of Usher" - Edgar Allan Poe
1845: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" - Frederick Douglass
1855: "The Song of Hiawatha" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I. Genre/Style
A. Poetry, character sketches, slave narratives, and short stories
B. Highly imaginative and subjective
C. Emotional, individualistic, and revolutionary
D. Fantasy/introspection
E. Formal language
II. Functions
A. Emphasize feeling, idealism, inductive reasoning, and intuition
III. Themes
A. Emotional intensity
B. Escapism
C. Common man as hero
D. Nature as a refuge and source of knowledge and/or spirituality
E. Universe as perplexing and irrational
Famous Authors and Works:
1839: "The Fall of the House of Usher" - Edgar Allan Poe
1845: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" - Frederick Douglass
1855: "The Song of Hiawatha" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow