American Literature – 10 Welcome to your American Literature - 1 What were the ways of Paine, Adams and Jefferson used to shape democracy in America? battle for victory of people's will persuasion and debate advocating natural right of man to rule divine right of kings to govern with people's representatives None Which world events helped most the struggle for Independence in America? insensitivity of British towards the English migrants settled in America writers advocating the role of man to shape his own future emergence of rationalism French Revolution None Rationalism made people optimistic for God and nature are benevolent seeking harmony progress is through human effort happy society is possible and within reach of man progress is inevitable if pursued rationally None Who demanded complete political independence? Hamilton Thomas Paine Jefferson Adams None Who believed that government existed not to control but to serve people? Thomas Paine George Washington Thomas Jefferson Adams None Which aspect of American life was highlighted by Romanticism? intellectual life emotional aspirations individualism frustration None Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman represented which aspects of American Romanticism? individualism and optimism, a bright picture emotions rather than intellect naturalness spontaneity None Poe, Hawthorne and Melville represented which aspects of American Romanticism? morbid emotional forces basic contradiction between man's aspiration and actual conditions no faith in the possibilities of social reforms and development problems of isolation, liabilities of individualism, pessimistic. A dark picture None Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper were among the first great American writers champions of American institutions federalists in conviction 18th century writers infused with new 19th century Romanticism None What does "Flowering of New England" mean? coming out of the period of stagnation fertilization with European ideas the natural Puritan respect for a life of the mind flowered into American Renaissance the new creative outburst resulted in writers of radical and conservative outlook the eastern Massachusetts flowered into new possibilities None Transcendentalism developed in/by Boston New England radicals Conservatives The Brahmins None American transcendentalism stands for romantic distrust of the intellect and exaltation of intuition reality can be apprehended through spiritual insight German philosophers and English inrerpretors Metaphysical justification None Some of the important members of Transcenderual group are Hawthorne Melville Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman None Emerson's major message was self-reliance social-reform confidence progress and virtue None Henry David Thoreau believed in non-conformism philosophic anarchism self-denial rugged and uncompromising new Englander None Thoreau lived the life of a hermit and wrote a classic named Concord Walden The Scarlet Letter Autocrat of the Breakfast Table None The conservative New Englanders generally belonged Harvard Cleveland Philadelphia Virginia None The conserva tives among the New Englanders disapproved of the transcendentalists and trusted intellectualism believed in a "genteel tradition" were generally Unitarians mercantile oligarchy adhered to traditional values of Boston None Afterer the Civil war the ideas of conservatives changed into democracy genteel tradition abolitionism introspection None Some of the significant conservatives are Emerson Thoreau Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan poe None Some writers of the South, where literary renllissance reached late, are Edgar Allan Poe Emerson Longfellow Hawthorne None Someme significant New Yorkers are Fernimore Cooper Herman Melville and Walt Whitman Longfellow Hawthorne None American literature after 1890 shows . the complexity and changes in the nature of American life the world wars economic depression leading to introspection emergence of a wide reading public None The vast land and variety of cultural background gave birth to literature of negroes literature of New Englanders regionalism literature of West: and Mid-West None What were the factors in the 20th century, which helped conformity in literature and life trans-continental railroad, radio, television and newspapers the idea of one nation uniformity of purpose-to safeguard freedom moral and religious values None Time's up
