Murrikan Literature.
Chapter 2
This chapter discusses American Romanticism which started because of the drastic changes going on at the time. The book asks us if everyone has a dark side, what is the price of progress, and where do people look for the truth. Romanticists spread around news and ideas from their poems and journalism. So if Romanticism never started in America, would we still have slaves today? The best part about questioning history is the amount of variables that it comes with. It's like writing a book since you can make up some parts. Many of these writers were influential in the forging of American literature, notably the Fireside poets and the "Dark" Romantics: Henry Longfellow and Edgar Allen Poe. Dark Romantics contrasted from their light and fluffy brethren, preferring the mysterious, insane, and grotesque that is Gothic literature.
All this mixing eventually would turn into a unique identity that didn't imitate that of their European counterparts. Kudos to you America.
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