UNIT 1 EAR

Apuntes

UNIT 1 EARLY 19TH CENTURY: ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM 1.1. Romantic and Transcendentalist influences 1.2 The Precursors: The New Literature (1810-1840) Literatura Nort I. Unit 1, sections 1. 1 & 1.2 OVERVIEW • L.1 Romantic and Transcendentalist influences: the Making of the Myth • The precursors: the New Literature (1810-1840) • P. 1 Washington Irving, from “Rip Van Winkle” • W.1 James Fenimore Cooper, from The Last of The Mohicans • L.2 American (Re)nassaince (1840-1860) • Transcendentalism • L.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature • L.2 Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself • • L. 3. The Boston Brahmins • P.2 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter • • L. 4. The Renaissance of New England • Edgar Allan Poe, from “The Raven” • • L. 5. On Slavery and the Woman Question • Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Literatura Nort I. Unit 1, sections 1. 1 & 1.2 Objectives of the unit To contextualize the socio-cultural, political, and literary panorama of 19th century in North America. To understand the different literary movements and their main authors, with special emphasis on Romanticism and Transcendentalism. To briefly analyze a selection of texts by R...