American Renaissance

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cultural movement literary movement

American Renaissance refers to the mid-19th-century flourishing of American literature and arts, marked by figures like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman, who helped define a distinct national cultural identity.

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American Renaissance cultural movement	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
associatedWork	Leaves of Grass ⓘ Moby-Dick ⓘ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave ⓘ surface form: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Nature ⓘ Leaves of Grass ⓘ surface form: Song of Myself The Fall of the House of Usher ⓘ The Scarlet Letter ⓘ Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ Walden; or, Life in the Woods ⓘ surface form: Walden
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culturalSignificance	helped define a distinct American cultural identity ⓘ
endTime	circa 1860s ⓘ
field	American arts ⓘ American literature ⓘ
focus	creation of a distinct American literature ⓘ
hasPart	American Romanticism ⓘ American essays ⓘ American fiction ⓘ American poetry ⓘ American Romanticism ⓘ surface form: Dark Romanticism Transcendentalism ⓘ
influenced	American literary criticism ⓘ modern American literature ⓘ
influencedBy	Enlightenment thought ⓘ Romanticism ⓘ surface form: European Romanticism Puritan heritage ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainTheme	American national identity ⓘ democracy ⓘ individualism ⓘ nature ⓘ reform movements ⓘ religion and spirituality ⓘ slavery and abolition ⓘ
notableFigure	Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ Emily Dickinson ⓘ Douglass ⓘ surface form: Frederick Douglass Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ Henry David Thoreau ⓘ Herman Melville ⓘ Margaret Fuller ⓘ Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ Walt Whitman ⓘ
overlapsWith	Antebellum period ⓘ surface form: Antebellum period in the United States
region	New England ⓘ
startTime	circa 1830s ⓘ
timePeriod	mid-19th century ⓘ

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New Jersey State House → architecturalStyle → American Renaissance ⓘ

Triumph of Religion murals → artMovement → American Renaissance ⓘ

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The American Scholar → influenced → American Renaissance ⓘ

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American Romanticism → literaryPeriod → American Renaissance ⓘ

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American Renaissance architecture → partOf → American Renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Renaissance cultural movement

Colonial Revival → partOf → American Renaissance ⓘ

American Romantic nationalism → relatedTo → American Renaissance ⓘ