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Chapter 3 American Romanticism. Irving. Cooper The gist American Romanticism Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper American Romanticism The Romantic Period? the first half of the 19th century of a rising America (from the end of the 18th century to the Civil War) p40L2 Q: The Romantic period of the E R? 1798-1832 The Background of American Romanticism A rising America: with its ideals of democracy and equality, its industrialization, its westward expansion. Influences of European romantic movement: Sir Walter Scott’s border tales and Waverley romances, British Romantic poets… p