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What is American Romanticism?
Summary: This essay defines and explains what "American Romanticism" is and gives a feeling of what the era was like.
"Romanticism" is defined as a set of principles that belong to a period of cultural history marked by experimentation, shifting values, and drastically different social roles. This period of time refers to a few years before the nineteenth century when a collection of intellectuals across Europe began to think differently, to be more exact from 1800 to 1850. They began to think about themselves, humanity, and the "nature of nature". That is, when the first academics, scholars, and philosophers, and then artists too, began to question some of the key principles of their view of the Neo-Classical world. Romanticism was a factor in: the cycle of social history, the interpretation of nature, the romantic agenda, which covered the principles and themes for many romantic novels, the romantic sense that the universe was alive, and the thought that in a universe that is alive and constantly changing, even "truth" itself is...
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