Romanticism

1. Romanticicism,
a result of a Growing
Nation

2. Natural
Writers
Are simply people who observe
and write about the living
planet, who witness the birth
and death of the residents,
who understand we all share
the earth equally, and who tell
the stories that come from the
earth.

3. Sila
(inuit dialect)
“The power of nature, weather,
human and consciousness as
one and the same”.
No separation between the
“emotional weather” and the
natural forces on the outside
that affect us.

4. Changes could Changes our view
of ourselves
In what ways did the growth in
the size of the United States
during this period affect the
Nation view of itself?
 The new prosperity unleashed fierce competition,
leading to the creation of factories scarred by child labor
and unsafe work conditions.
 Most women could not vote or file a law suit until
1850’s there was a promotion of women’s rights.
 There was a conflict between abolitionist and slavery.

5. The World in 19th Century
Historical Events
 Napoleon Bonaparte
became an emperor
 Hong Kong became a
British Colony
 First exploration of
Antarctica.
 Crimean Wars
Literary Gems
 Pride and Prejudice (Jane
Austen)
 Frankenstein (Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley)
 Notre Dame de Paris
(Victor Hugo)
 The Communist
Manifesto (Friedrich
Engels and Karl Marx)

6. U.S.A. in the 19th Century
Historical events
 Extension of the territory
with the Louisiana
Purchase.
 Steamboat first trip from
New York to Albany.
 U.S. declared war to Great
Britain.
 Mexican Wars extended
the United States border.
 F.b. Morse patent
telegraph.
 California Gold rush
begins.
Literary Gems
 Thamerlane (Edgar Allan
Poe)
 The Scarlett letter , The
house of Seven Gables
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
 Moby Dick (Herman
Melville)
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Harriet Beecher Stowe)

7. Changes actions
reactions
Changes
As a result of the growing
prosperity, what challenges
confronted the United States in
mid-nineteenth century?
 After the War of 1812, The United States convinced
Europeans that they were on the world stage to stay. In
the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, President James Monroe
warned Europe not to intervene in the new Latin
American Nations .

8. Changes in paper
In what way does the literary of
this period reflect the country
expansion? “had a lively faith in the perfectibility of a
 Americans
man,” believing “what appears to them to be good may
be superseded by something better tomorrow.”
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
 Before 1800’s American writers were no widely read,
until they began to gave their own voice being their
primary subject the quest of individuals to define himor
helself.
 Romantics writers do not necessarily write about love,
they elevate the imagination over reason and intuition
over fact.

9. Thanks