Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Gothic Literature, Romanticism, Transcendentalism


- Gothic Literature -

- Gothic Literature combines both horror and romance.

- Popular during the end o the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century.

- Romanticism -

- A movement in art and literature in the late 18th century into the

early 19th century.

- Celebrated nature rather than civilization

- Transcendentalism -

- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas that came to New England in the early 19th

century to the middle of the 19th century.

- The new ideas were Literature, Religion, Culture, and Philosophy.

- It was sometimes called American Transcendentalism to distinguish if from the word

transcendental.



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