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THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY

American Renaissance

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AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

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Historical Time Period

Facts & Events

Social Status

Timeline

Political Status

Society

Culture

Literary Styles

Influential Authors

Video

References

Thanks

American Renaissance

Historical Time Period

Edwin Díaz

Facts & Events

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American Renaissance

Timeline

Isander Pabón

1812-1814

Timeline

War of 1812 reaffirms U.S. independence from Great Britain.

1822

Factories built in Lowell, Massachusetts, made it one of the country’s largest industrial cities.

1825

Erie Canal links the Great Lakes with the Hudson River.

1830

Congress passes the Indian Removal Act.

1837

John Deere develops a steel plow for the western prairies.

1844

Samuel B. Morse transmits the first successful telegraph message.

1846-48

Mexican-American War expanded.

1848

The discovery of gold in California leads to the first gold rush.

American Renaissance

Social & Political Status

Jeitza Sepúlveda

Status

Social status

How was the society during this time period?

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political status

How was the economic system influenced during the American Renaissance?

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American Renaissance

Society & Culture

Natalia González

Transcendentalism

Culture

Society

  • Literature as a form of artistic expression
  • Individualism
  • Idealism
  • Divinity of nature
  • Influential writers adopted European romanticism into their own culture.
  • Disliked their Puritan heritage & fast pace Industrial Revolution.
  • Social groups

American Renaissance

Literary Styles

Amaris Merced

Romanticism vs. Transcendentalism

American Renaissance

Influential Authors

Gabriel Medina

Influential Authors

Walt whitman

Emily Dickinson

Edgar allan poe

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul"

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman was born May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Long Island, New York. Whitman was a poet, journalist, and essayist during the period known as American Romanticism. At the age of 12, Whitman started working as a printer, until he took up journalism as a profession, and eventually became an editor. During this time, he published the first edition of his book Leaves of Grass, which would eventually have 9 editions, as he kept editing, adding, and refining the poems in it.

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Dickinson is considered to be one of the two leading poets of American Romanticism, along with Walt Whitman. Dickinson lived a very secluded life; most of her social interactions were in the letters she sent to friends and colleagues, in which she cultivated her love of literature and writing. Only 10 of the nearly 1,800 poems she wrote in her were published during her lifetime, while the rest were kept private in hand-sewn books, or in letters to friends and colleagues.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe was a short story writer, literary critic, editor, and poet, best known for his stories and poems, which explored horror, the macabre, melancholy, and the complex forces that motivate our behavior. As part of the "dark" Romanticism, he focused on emotion, the individual, nature, and the unusual. In his life, Poe was plagued by misery, having lost his mother at a young age, a tense relationship with his father, economic hardship, and a lifelong struggle with alcoholism.

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References

The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. “American Renaissance.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., n.d. Accessed February 22, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/art/American-Renaissance. History.com Editors. “Transcendentalism.” History.com. A& E Television Networks, November 15, 2017. Last modified November 15, 2017. Accessed February 22, 2021. https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/transcendentalism. Beers, Kylene, Martha Hougen, Elena Izquierdo, Carol Jago, Erik Palmer, and Robert E. Probst. “Unit 3 The Individual and Society.” Essay. In American Literature, 1:204–290. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2020. History.com Editors. “Erie Canal.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, March 15, 2018. Last modified March 15, 2018. Accessed February 24, 2021. https://www.history.com/topics/landmarks/erie-canal. “Mexican-American War.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., n.d. Accessed February 24, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/event/Mexican-American-War. History.com Editors. “California Gold Rush.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, April 6, 2010. Last modified April 6, 2010. Accessed February 24, 2021. https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/gold-rush-of-1849#:~:text=The%20California%20Gold%20Rush%20was,half%20of%20the%2019th%20century.

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