1800-1860: Am Rom

What is American Romanticism?

• A journey away from corruption of civilization toward nature and imagination

• finding truth in reason

• worshipping God

• believing God was available to all people at all times

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What is rationalism?

• bases truth on religious beliefs

• values feeling and intuition over reason

• Reason is the chief source and test of knowledge

• values corruption and death

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Which of the following cities was not one of the largest in the 19th century?

• Boston

• Philadelphia

• Columbus

• New York

All of the following are characteristic of American Romanticism EXCEPT:

• places faith in inner experience

• places faith in outer experience

• champions individual freedom

• contemplates nature's beauty as a path to development

True or False: The Romantics wanted to rise above "dull realities" to a realm of higher truth.

• True

• False

True or False: Romantics did not contemplate the natural world in their lyric poetry.

• True

• False

American novelists... (did all of these EXCEPT)

• looked to westward expansion

• created subject matter that broke with tradition

• stuck to traditional writing structures

• looked to the development of frontier

The American Romantic hero possesses all of the following EXCEPT...

• old age

• innocence

• intuitiveness

• closeness to nature

Gothic novels emphasized all of the following EXCEPT...

• wild, haunted landscapes

• realistic experiences

• supernatural events

• mysterious medieval castles

True or False: Washington Irving was known for inventing narrators.

• True

• False