Romanticism And Transendentalism Flashcards
Individual
Individual is greater than the collective.
Seek to know and be creative
Spirituality is the ability to discern the world
Imagination
Interest in the knew, the unknown
Intuition
A gut feeling, an intuitive law that is beyond reason
Idealism
We are inherently good, and the world is becoming a better place
Gothic
A genre of romanticism, like ghosts witches and stuff
Transcendentalism
A trend that emerged and for the most part stayed in concord Massachusetts. It was a distilled romanticism NATURE
They waxed philosophical,
Oversoul
A transendentalist term which is similar to the themes of chi, the force, or chakra from Naruto. It is a force which is all around us and connects all living things.
Pantheism
God is in everything and everywhere, God = sum of all creation
European romanticism
Late 1700s to early 1800s
Before American romanticism.
Westward expansion,
Manifest destiny, natural wonder, idealism of the time period
Industrial revolution
The antichrist of romanticism. 👹
Romanticism is a backlash to the industrial revolution
Mechanical/uniform/
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Books such as the scarlet letter,
Very obvious symbolism
Wrote about puritans
Edgar Alan Poe
His life was marked by tragedy, everyone he knew died, from parents, to wife.
The four fields that Poe pioneered in
Short stories
Detective stories
Horror
Poetry
Edgar Allen Poe used these key 5 themes
Acuteness of the senses Decent into madness Slowing of time Psychic merging of characters Architectural allegory
