ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
American Romanticism refers to romantic love.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -American Romanticism refers to romantic love. Romantics value industry over nature. Romantics value education over intuition. Performing their poems around campfires.

Detailed explanation-2: -In America, it dominated the literary scene from around 1820 to the end of the Civil War and the rise of Realism. It arose as a reaction to the formal orthodoxy and Neoclassicism of the preceding period. It is marked by a freedom from the authority, forms, and conventions typical in Neoclassical literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -What are the 5 characteristics of American romanticism? Romanticism is marked by a focus on individualism, an emphasis on nature, emotion over reason, freedom of form, and an exploration of the Gothic and unknown.

Detailed explanation-4: -Imagination, emotion, and freedom are certainly the focal points of romanticism.

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