Civil war (1642-1648) and the English Bourgeois Revolution

Edgar Allan Рое put feeling & intuition above reason & rationalism. Yet on the other hand he sings prays to man's intellectual powers. Не is the pioneer of the intellectual detective story. He worked out his own aesthetics of story writing: stories should have a dynamic & entertaining plot that would keep the reader in suspense to the very end. Yet they should be short enough to be read at one sitting. ("Annabel Lee", "T h e В e 11 s", "The Raven")
14. American Romantism. N. Hawthore. H. Melville
In America Romanticism (1820-1860) emerged 30 years later than it did in England or France due to the peculiarities of American history. American Romanticism had much in common with European. The development of the self became the mayor theme(self-awareness), self and nature were one
Ch-s: values feelings and intuition over reason, places faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination, nature, prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication, individual freedom, looks backwards to the wisdom of the past, finds inspiration in myths, legends and folk culture
Nathaniel Hawthorne Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories include "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832), "Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832), "Young Goodman Brown" (1835), and the collection Twice-Told Tales. He is best known for his novels The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). His use of allegory and symbolism make Hawthorne one of the most studied writers. His greatest work is "The Scarlet Letter" which is based on real events of the 17th century. It deals with problems of crime & regret, confession, sexual & spiritual repression. The author showed how the puritanical fanatism ruined the life of noble & decent people.
Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. He worked as a crew member on several vessels beginning in 1839, his experiences spawning his successful early novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Subsequent books, including his masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851), sold poorly, and by the 1860s Melville had turned to poetry. Following his death in New York City in 1891, he posthumously came to be regarded as one of the great American writers. . Many of his works are steeped in metaphor and allegory, at times cynical, others satirical. His greatest work was the novel "Moby Dick; or, White Whale". It's an adventure novel full of exotics of the sea. Secondly, it's a realistic novel, for the reader learns a lot about the whaling business in the 19th c. It's also a philosophical novel dealing with issues of life, its objectives & other moral matters.