American Literature / Unit 8 AML 0701 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dark Romanticism: The Answer to Concord
Captions available
The idea
The dark Romantics share the Transcendentalists' methods and reject their optimism. They keep intuition, symbol and the solitary individual, and they locate evil inside human nature rather than in institutions. Where Emerson trusts the self, Hawthorne and Melville examine what the self conceals.
In practice
The same instruments, the opposite verdict.
Where people slip
They are Romantics arguing with Romantics.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it