American Literature / Unit 6 AML 0502 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Romanticism: The Terms That Define It
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The idea
Romanticism values feeling over calculation, the individual over the institution, nature over the town, and the imagination as a way of knowing. It arrived from Europe and found American subjects at once: an unmapped continent, a short history, and peoples the new nation was displacing.
In practice
Feeling, the individual, nature, imagination.
Where people slip
The movement is a set of preferences, not a rulebook.
Your place on the trail
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