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Objectives Enable the Ss to know the background, representative writers and their works of the Romantic period in American literary history; Enable the Ss to know spirit of transcendentalism by reading Emerson’s “ The American Scholar” Enable the appreciate Hawthorne’s style by a close reading of “The Minister’s Black Veil” Teaching Materials William Cullen Bryant “To a Waterfowl” “The Yellow Violet” Emerson “ The American Scholar” Hawthorne “The Minister’s Black Veil” Teaching Methodology Lecturing Text-analysis General Introduction Simply speaking, Romanticism is a literary movement flourished as a cultural force throughout the 19th C and it can be divided into the early period and the late period. Also it remains powerful in contemporary literature and art. General Introduction Romanticism, a term that is associated with imagination and boundlessness, as contrasted with classicism, which is commonly associated with reason and restriction. A romantic attitude may be detected in literature of any period, but as an historical movement it arose in the 18th and 19th centuries, in reaction to more rational literary, philosophic, artistic, religious, and economic standards.... The most clearly defined romantic literary movement in the U. S. was Transcendentalism. General Introduction The representatives of the early period includes Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant and those of the late period contain Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe. five novels Leather-Stocking Tales Natty Bumppo. finest achievement a vast prose epic Setting： the North American continent Characters： Indian tribes social background： great wars and westward migration The novels bring to life frontier America from 1740 to 1804. His Major Works 1) The Pioneers(1823): Natty Bumppo first scout dying Chingachgook chief comrade the eastern forest