Romantic Period & Women Reformers Writers (US)

1. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD AND
WOMEN WRITERS - REFORMERS
By Group 4
Wayan Widiadnyana 120 130 50 51
I G A Triana Rakanita 120 130 50 55
Putu Rina Dewi 120 130 50 56
Rico Yulianto Putro 120 130 50 58

2. The Romantic Period
Were not love story
&
Dark and forbidding

3. Dark Romanticism
Characteristics:
 Lots of creepy symbols
 Horrific themes
 Psychological effects of guilt and sin

4. The Authors
Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville Edgar A. Poe

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Set in Puritan New England
• Treated issues that were
usually suppressed in 19th
century America
• He uses allegory, as
technique the early puritan
themselves practiced.

6. Herman Melville
• Grew out of his voyages
• Moby Dick; or, The Whale,
Melville’s masterpiece and
has been called a ‘natural
epic’

7. Edgar A. Poe
• Metaphysical vision
mixed with elements of
realism, parody, and
burlesque
• Invented detective fiction
• Science fiction, horror,
and fantasy

8. Woman Writers and Reformers
American woman endured many inequalities in
the 19th century. The strong women tried to
fight back by springing up their network.
Through letters, personal friendships, formal
meetings, women’s newspaper, and books,
women furthered social change.

9. Abolitionist Lydia Child ( 1802
– 1880 )
• Leader of the woman ‘sprang
up’ network.
• She founded and edited the
first journal for children in the
United States, and published
the first antislavery tract, An
Appeal in Favor of That Class
of Americans Called Africans,
in 1833.
• Her History of the Condition of
Women in Various Ages and
Nations (1855) argues for
women equality by pointing to
their historical achievements.
Angelina Grimke & Sarah
Grimke ( 1805 – 1879 )
• First women to publicly lecture
to audiences, including men.
In letters, essays, and studies,
they drew parallels between
racism and sexism.

10. Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( 1815 –
1902 )
• Abolitionist and women’s right
activist.
• With Lucretia Mott, she
organized the 1848 Seneca
Falls Convention for Women’s
rights; she also drafted its
Declaration Sentiments.
• She published a book entitled
The Women’s Bible (1895)
discerns a deep seated anti –
female bias in Judaeo Christian
tradition.
• History of Woman Suffrage
also hers which was co –
authored for 3 volumes and a
first pseudonymous.
Sojouner Truth ( 1797 – 1883 )
• Epitomized the endurance and
charisma of this extraordinary
group of women.
• Her story about being a slave
and ran away from her master
was told in the Narrative of
Sojourner Truth 1850, an
autobiographical account
transcribed and edited by
Olive Gilbert.

11. Harriet Beecher Stowe ( 1811 –
1896)
• Her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin;
or Life among the Lowly was
the most popular American
book of the 19th century.
• Forty different publishers
printed it in England alone,
and it was quickly translated
into 20 languages.
• Her motive was the religious
passion to reform life by
making it more godly.
• Stowe’s novel attacked slavery
precisely because it violated
domestic values.
Harriet Jacobs ( 1818 – 1896 )
• Being friend to Amy Post, just
after giving up her life on
being a slave, she wrote her
autobiography ; Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl. This
book outspokenly condemned
the sexual exploitation of black
slave women.

12. Harriet Wilson ( 1807 – 1870)
• She was the first African –
American to publish a novel
in the US – Our Nig; or
Sketches from the life of a
Free Black, in a two storey
white house, North.
Frederick Douglass ( 1817 –
1895)
• The most famous black
Amrican anti – slavery leader
and orator of the era.
• In 1845, he published his
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, An
American Slave.
• This helped blacks in the
difficulty task of establishing
an African – American Identity
in white America, and it has
continued to exert an
important influence on black
fictional techniques and
themes throughout the 20th
century.