J. Kelly Robison

The Romantic Impulse

  1. Introduction
  2. Religion in Market America
    1. Rational Religion
      1. Deism
      2. Unitarianism/Universalism
    2. The Second Great Awakening
      1. New England Conservatism
      2. Frontier Preaching
      3. The Burned-Over District
        1. Charles Finney
        2. The Mormons
  3. Romanticism in America
    1. European Ideas
    2. Trancendentalism
      1. Emerson
      2. Thoreau
    3. Romantic Literature
      1. Novelists
        1. Nathaniel Hawthorne
        2. James Fenimore Cooper
        3. Herman Melville
      2. Poets
        1. Henry Longfellow
        2. Edgar Allen Poe
        3. Walt Whitman
    4. Art
      1. Hudson River School - The Majestic Sweep of Nature
        1. Thomas Cole
        2. Asher Durand
        3. Frederick Church
        4. Albert Bierstadt
      2. Genre Artists - Ordinary Lives
        1. George Caleb Bingham
        2. Currier & Ives
  4. Conclusions

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