Romanticism

What is the main focus of American Romanticism?

• Political matters

• Revolutionary governmental ideas

• Emotions and feelings

• Persuasive essays

What does Romanticism value over logic and reason?

• Feeling and intuition

• Persuasion and argument

• Facts and evidence

• Analysis and deduction

What does Transcendentalism emphasize in determining the ultimate reality?

• Intuition and gut feeling

• Logic and reason

• Social norms and conventions

• Scientific evidence and experimentation

Which literary movement explores conflicts between good and evil, guilt and sin, and madness?

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

• Gothic

• Realism

What is the main subject matter of Romanticism?

• Quest for beauty

• Escapist literature

• External nature

• All of the above

Since this was also an artistic movement, do you think the painters of the Romantic Period more worried about being technically correct or inspired?

• technically correct

• inspired

True or False: Imagination was emphasized over "reason"

• True

• False

Romantic artists loved

• nature

• reason

• education

• death

Romantics were inspired by supernatural tales and myths

• true

• false

American Romanticism refers to romantic love.

• True

• False