The Romantic Period Flashcards

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When did it take place?

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1800-1855

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What was it?

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A literary movement, the reaction to the age of reason, and it represented the boundlessness of the imagination and adventure

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Name all 7 of the characteristics

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An impulse toward reform
A celebration of the individual/individualism
A reverence for nature; nature
A concern with the impact of new technology
An idealization of women
A fascination with death and the supernatural
The common man is heroic

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Name 6 famous Romanticists

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Washington Irving
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Nathanial Hawthorne
Emily Dickinson
James Fenimore Cooper
Margaret Fuller
William Cullen Bryant
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry David Thoreau

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What are the types of Romantic Literature?

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Gothic literature
Essays: Transcendentalism

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Who was the “Father of American Literature”?

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Washington Irving

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