ROMANTICISM

CHARACTERISTICS

• Values feelings and intuition, not reason
• Values nature over civilization
• Individual freedom is important
• The hero was commonly youthful, and intuitive
• Looks back to the wisdom of the past

During the romantics period there was plenty of war and slavery and women's rights going on. There was a lot of debate going on so the romantics writers would write their stories or poetry to get away from all of the bad things going on around them. Eventually they got to the point where they were writing to celebrate the war being over. It was, "a reaction against rationalism".

FAMOUS AUTHORS

• Washington Irving
• Emily Dickinson
• Walt Whitman
• Henry Longfellow
• James Fenimore Cooper

FAMOUS WORKS

• Arthur Mervyn by Charles Brockden
• Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
• Old Ironside by Oliver Wrndell Holmes
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

HERMAN MELVILLE

• Born August 1st, 1891, New York City
• American Romanticism Author
• Moby Dick
• Bartleby, the Scrivner

Arthur Mervyn by Charles Brockden.
This novel is about a young farmboy who goes on a journey to Philadelphia. He goes on the journey to Make his dreams come true but instead he runs into the real world of evil And outbreak. This book taps into reality and shows what the young boy is capable of.

By Kamrey Humann, Zack Waldemar, Nick Jewison