EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE MAGAZINE Early American Literature Magazine exam | Page 21

In the 1850s, the United States began to form its own era of literature, thus being the
American romanticism that gave birth to many very important and relevant literary pieces
of today. This is how the authors began to write about the beauty of the natural landscape,
intact by man. The aesthetics of nature is something that was extremely important to
American romantic writers, and is reflected in works like Leatherstocking Tales, The Last
of the Mohicans.
Characteristics
 Nature
 Emotion
 Imagination
 Individualism
Themes
 Expansive Idealism
 Humanitarianism and democracy
 Equality
 Utopian ideals
 The noble savage
 Primitivism
 The nature of good or evil
 Conflict between spirit and body
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