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Romanticism and Literature

Study Literary & Revolutionary Spirit using Online Video

At a time of colonial conquest and revolutionary war, see how the literary and revolutionary spirit created by Romantic writers evolved in America through the work of Emerson and Thoreau, Walker, Douglass, and Truth. Use our 6 online educational video titles to explore the cause-and-effect relationship between the American and French revolutions, and between the French Revolution and struggles for independence in Haiti, Mexico, Central and South America, North Africa, and Greece. Identify key inventions of the early industrial revolution and describe their social effects. See how Romantic literature helped motivate political revolution and learn examples of Romantic elements in the literature of the young United States. Discover the territorial expansions of the United States, Great Britain, and France during the early nineteenth century. See how the Romantic spirit influenced writers in both slave and free states during the decades before the Civil War.

Learning Objectives:

Explore the cause-and-effect relationship between the American and French revolutions, and between the French Revolution and struggles for independence in Haiti, Mexico, Central and South America, North Africa, and Greece.
Identify key inventions of the early industrial revolution and describe their social effects.
See how Romantic literature helped motivate political revolution and learn examples of Romantic elements in the literature of the young United States.
Discover the territorial expansions of the United States, Great Britain, and France during the early nineteenth century.
See how the Romantic spirit influenced writers in both slave and free states during the decades before the Civil War.