
This engaging guide includes important information on the foundations of romantic thought, romanticism and the new nation, gothic romance and sentimentalism, transcendentalism, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, and romanticism and poetic voice.<br><br><b>Topics include:</b><ul><li>The foundations of romantic thought</li><li>Transcendentalism and nature</li><li>The literature of social reform movements</li><li>The emergence of the American poetic voice</li><li>and more.</li></ul><br><b>Writers covered include:</b><ul><li>Emily Dickinson</li><li>Frederick Douglass</li><li>Ralph Waldo Emerson</li><li>Washington Irving</li><li>Herman Melville</li><li>Edgar Allan Poe</li><li>Harriet Beecher Stowe</li><li>Henry David Thoreau</li><li>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</li><li>Walt Whitman</li><li>and many others.</li></ul>
Page Count:
96
Publication Date:
2006-01-01
ISBN-10:
0816056684
ISBN-13:
9780816056682
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