Romanticism

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Romanticism

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Big emotions and ideas, late 18th century Europe

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American Romanticism period

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1820-1865

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Focus of American Romanticism

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Individualism and nature

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Key American Romantic authors

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Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe

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Transcendentalism development period

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Late 1820s and 1830s

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Father of Transcendentalism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalism key concepts

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Optimism, nature, direct divine knowledge

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Transcendentalism's view on church authority

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Impedes direct personal connection to God

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Transcendentalists criticized

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materialism

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Transcendentalists championed

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social reform