Romanticism Flashcards
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What’s dark romanticism
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A variation that plays on the human capacity for fear and terror. Edgar Allen Poe is a dark romanticist who created gothic literature with images of death and macabre
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Definition of romanticism
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A political and artistic movement of the early 19th century that emphasizes emotion over reason, inspired by recent political revolutions across the globe
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What’s transcendentalism?
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The American spin on romanticism, with specific emphasis
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What’s a paradox?
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An occasion in which seemingly opposite realities create a truth. (Thoreau is patriotic by refusing to pay taxes in order to protest the unpatriotic practice of slavery)
