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Americans were painfully aware of their excessive dependence on English literary models.

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It would take 50 years of accumulated hiustory fro America to earn its cultural independence and to produce the first great generation of American writers.

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Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - Scott Peeples

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What you need to know about Emily Dickinson | Great Writers Series | Shall We Read

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He promoted self-help books, listing 12 virtues everyone must have.
He never lost his democratic sensibility. He gave Europeans a glowing idea of opportunities for peace, wealth, and pride in America.

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He was a French aristocrat who owned a plantation outside New York City before the Revolution.

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Neoclassicism; Epic, Mock epic, and Satire

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Neoclassicism; Epic, Mock epic, and Satire

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When trying to write poetry, most educated authors stumbled into the pitfall of elegant neoclassicism. The epic, in particular, exercised a fatal attraction.
Satirical poetry fared much better than serious verse.

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The Romantic movement had its roots in Germany but it expanded to England, France, and other countries until it arrived ti America.

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Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know

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FRIGHTFUL HISTORY: Who was Mary Shelley? Learn more about the SCREAM QUEEN author of Frankenstein!

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Romances were NOT love stories, but seriuos novel that used special techniques to communicate complex subtle meaning

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Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson and the first great literary generation produced in the United States

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The typical protagonist of the American Romance is a hunted, alienated individual. 

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The typical protagonist of the American Romance is a hunted, alienated individual. 

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American novels frequently reveal a revolutionary absence of tradition. 

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American novels frequently reveal a revolutionary absence of tradition. 

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Many English novels show a poor main character rising on the economic and social ladder.

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form is dark and forbidding; indicating how difficult it is to create an identity without a stable society.

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The political and economic atmosphere at the time heavily influenced the period, with many witers finding inspiration from the French Revolution. Victorian writers classify themselves as Romantics because of their ability to capture emotion and tenderness of man.

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Nowadays the word “romantic” evokes images of love and sentimentally,

It covers a range of developments in art, literature, music, and philosophy, spanning the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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William Blake: Poet, Artist & Visionary - a genius of early Romanticism in England

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The early Romantic poets tended to be supporters of the French Revolution, hoping to have a political change.

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Is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades.

It combines a variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional, and gender conflicts of the time.

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America also had an abundance of new literature.

Writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne created fiction during the Romantic period in America.