Unit 2 Early Romanticism - 副本课件.pptVIP

Unit 2 Early Romanticism;A few more words about American literature in the colonial and revolutionary period;American Romanticism: 1815-1865;American Romanticism: 1815-1865;Features of Romanticism;Romanticism was rebellious in spirit, standing in reaction against the neoclassical spirit then prevailing in American literary life. Neoclassicism: formality, order, authority; Romanticism: freedom and individualism, imagination superior to rationalism Neoclassicists: convinced of material reality; romantics: prefer the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man The Romantics’ reliance upon