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1) What years did the Romantic Period in America take place?
The Romantic Period in America took place from 1830 and ended in 1870

2) What was important to the Romantics? In what important ways was the beliefs of Romantics different from Deists?
The important things to the people of Romantic Literature were Individuality, Imagination and Escapism, Nature as a source of spirituality, Looking to the past for wisdom, and seeing the common man as a hero. and the difference between these people and Deists is that the powers of man are competent to all the great purpose of human existence.

3) What did authors from this time period mainly focus on in their writing?
The authors from this timeline mainly focused on Optimism.

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1) What is Transcendentalism and how is the same and different from Romanticism?

Transcendentalism is when you are more in touch with nature and sprite. In both Transcendentalism and Romanticism the advances in technology are not preferable but both seem to enjoy nature and the spiritual routs.

2) What was important to Transcendentalists?

Being connected to nature/being spiritual was important to them

3) Transcendentalists were just as much about what they were against than what what they were for, so what were some ideas that Transcendentalists against?

One of the ideas that they were against was technology, they believed that is was a mere distraction.

4) Who are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau? What were their philosophical and literary contributions to Transcendentalism?
Ralph and Henry were both writers and were both Transcendentalism. Ralph had written a book called Nature and Henry wrote one called Life In The Woods, these novels helped people understand

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1) What is Gothic literature?
Gothic Literature is known by the sub-genre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

2) Why was it also referred to as Dark Romanticism?
It was referred at Dark Romanticism at time because their similarities being lots of lust, Profuse Murder, Supernatural beings, and etc.

3) What ideas and themes did these authors focus on in their writing?

4) Who are some of the more famous Gothic writers to come out of this literary period?

Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, and Matthew Lewis