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I. Historical Background: American pioneers had pushed the frontier line of settlement beyond the Mississippi to the west, which has risen as a sectional power to challenge the political dominance of the East and the South. Before 1860, the United States had begun to change into an industrial and urban society. Literary characteristics: Romanticism, Transcendentalism The rise of Nationalism II. American Romanticism The Romantic Period in the history of American literature stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War, which started with the publication of Was