LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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believed in the innocence of all people
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revered reason over intuition or imagination
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denied the spiritual side of nature
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explored the darker sides of the human soul
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dark Romanticism focuses on human fallibility, self-destruction, judgement, punishment, as well as the psychological effects of guilt and sin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Whereas Transcendentalists felt perfection and their own divinity as innate qualities of mankind (they thiought utopian communes would work), Dark Romantics believed humans gravitate to evil and self-destruction (striving for a utopian society is a waste of time).
Detailed explanation-3: -The darker sides of human life recognized by the Romanticists, “opposed to the optimistic views of [the Transcendentalists]”, were the possibilities for a less “good or harmless” nature (172, 173).
Detailed explanation-4: -Romantics believed in the natural goodness of humans which is hindered by the urban life of civilization. They believed that the savage is noble, childhood is good and the emotions inspired by both beliefs causes the heart to soar. Romantics believed that knowledge is gained through intuition rather than deduction.