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The Emergence of American Literature, Philosophy, and Art and Scientific Attitudes
Painting Portraiture Historical ScenesLandscapes: Hudson River School
Painting-2Indian and Western Scenes Art Reproductions Sculpture
Hudson River School
Hudson River School
Hudson River School
Music Symphony Orchestra Choral Societies Music Schools
Music-2Music Periodicals Patriotic Songs American Composers and Musicians
Search for a national
language Dictionary of the English language
Noah Webster
Literary works Continued preference for English authors
William Shakespeare most popular
Writers on the American scene
First “American” Authors
Literary works
First “American” AuthorsRalph Waldo EmersonEmily DickinsonWashington IrvingJames Fennimore Cooper
Literary works First “American” Authors
Walt WhitmanHenry David ThoreauNathaniel HawthorneHerman MelvilleEdgar Allan Poe
Literary works 1830’s- Cheap paperbacks and newspapers were available for the first time
History Search for Heroes and a national history
WashingtonFounding Fathers
History-2National Historians Foreigners’ Observations
Alexis de Tocqueville-1830
Transcendentalism
Origins Components Influence