American Romanticism Learning Guide: Table of Contents
MoreAmerican Romanticism Learning Guide: Table of Contents
IntroductionTop 10 List
Million-Dollar Questions
Characteristics
The Novel
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Symbolism
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
Formal Experimentation
Nature
Walt Whitman, "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun" (1865)
Individualism
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841)
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (1855)
Emotion
Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Emily Dickinson, "Poor Little Heart!" (1924)
Imagination
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Sound of the Sea" (1920)
The American Revolution
Democracy and Freedom
Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854)
Walt Whitman, "I Hear America Singing" (1860)
The Frontier
James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie (1827)
Top Authors
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Timeline
Texts
Best of the Web
Module Quizzes
But is it American Romanticism? Identifying Quotes
American Romanticism Obsessions: Themes and Symbols
The Who's and What's of American Romanticism
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