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American Literature and Arts

by Ryan Taylor, Nick Rizzo, and Brian Boyle

Transcendentalism

A movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason.

Individualism

The unique importance of each individual.

Civil Disobedience

The idea that people should disobey unjust laws if their consciences demanded it.

Literature in America

Important People:

''Civilation might provide wealth, but nature refletcted highter values that came from God." - Emerson

Thoreau said, ''Most of the luxuries

and many of the so called comforts of life

are not only not indispensible, but positive hindrances

to the elevation of mankind.''

Louisa May Alcott: presented

a gentler view of New England life;

published ''Little Women."

Poets of Democracy:

They helped create

a new national voice.

Important Poets

Walt Whitman: wrote Leaves of Grass, 1855.

After 1820, artists created unique American style featuring landscapes and every day Americans.

Painting in America

Hudson River Valley: a group of painters that painted the Hudson River Valley and started the Hudson River Valley School.

Thomas Cole and other members reflected the values of Romanticism, and reproduced the beauty and power of nature

Other Members:

Bingham- created timeless pictures of life

Catlin- captured the ways and dignity of Native Americans

Songs

After a time, varieties of songs

had emerged. Some were work

songs, chants, and they also sang when

laying railroad ties and hauled barges.

Most popular songwriter was Stphen Foster.

He wrote "Camptown Races," and "Old Folks at

Home."

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Arts and Music in America

Herman Melville: he wrote the novel ''Moby Dick.''

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: wrote Paul Revere's Ride, and the song of Hiawatha.

Henry David Thoreau: took up Emerson's challenge;

spent two years living in the woods, meditating; urged

people to live simply.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: leading transcendentalist who in his speeches and essays asked the people of the value of material goods.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: wrote

novel ''Scarlet Letter,'' in 1850

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