American Romanticism Introduction

What years are associated with American Romanticism?

• 1600-1680

• 1720-1800

• 1800-1855/60

• 1920-1980

Romantics value ____________ over reason

• Ambition

• Education

• Intuition

• Society

Romantics believed that nature = corruption

• true

• false

Romantics believed that youthful _________ is better than educated sophistication

• beauty

• innocence

• ignorance

• energy

What did the Romantics value more?

• City Life

• Life in Nature

Two sub-genres of Romanticism are

• guilt and sin

• good and evil

• dark romanticism and transcendentalism

• sin and psychology

Where did American Romantics believe that you could find God?

• Nature

• Church

• Inside yourself

• In books

American Romanticism refers to romantic love.

• True

• False

What is the literary period that followed the Age of Reason in America?

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

• Gothic

• Realism

What is the characteristic of American Romanticism that prefers unspoiled nature?

• Faith in inner experiences

• Value of feeling and intuition

• Championing individual freedom

• Shunning artificiality of civilization