America expresses NationalismThrough Literature, Art, and Architecture

Famous Early American Authors• Washington Irving• First internationally

recognized American Author

• First author to truly depict common American lives and themes.

Famous Early American Authors

• James Fennimore Cooper• His novels portrayed the real lives of

Native Americans and Settlers on the frontier

Famous Early American Authors

• Noah Webster• His works, the Blue-Backed Speller and

An American Dictionary of the English Language unified the American dialect.

The Transcendentalists

• Ralph Waldo Emerson• Leader of the

Movement• Key Essays”• “Nature” & “Self-

Reliance”

• Henry David Thoreau• Lived in the wilderness for 2

years , wrote “Walden”• Wrote “Civil Disobedience”

an essay about protesting injustice that later inspired Dr.King.

A literary movement that expressed an almost religious feeling toward nature and stressed that individuals be self-reliant

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?

The Hudson river School of Art

• Before 1800 Most artwork looked like this…

• People were the focus

The Hudson river School of Art

• A group of painters formed the Hudson River School of Arts to focus on painting the country’s breathtaking landscapes, plants, and animals

• Like this…

WOW!

Architecture• Founders like Thomas Jefferson thought

that architecture was symbolic.• They wanted the new nation’s

architecture to emulate ancient Greece and Rome

• Why do you think they felt that way?

Neoclassical Architecture• Neoclassical Architecture

communicated the new nation’s commitment to democracy.

You Summarize

• How did the art of the early 1800s express and define American Nationalism?