So... I have to start off with an apology. The past 4 weeks have been pretty busy for me, whether with work, school, or personal matters. Part of it was due to my preparing to propose (which I did on April 4th and she said yes!). Part of it is I forgot one or two of the weeks. The other parts I can't/won't go into. So now I am paying for it with the fact that I have to knock out 8 blog posts over the course of the next 2 days and 4 responses to someone else's blog posts in my class. This should be fun.
Now for the good stuff. The American Renaissance. That is the common name for this time period. It's not fully accurate to some people, but we'll just go with it. During this time period, it is considered that American Literature truly became a uniquely identifiable thing. American authors started to gain some notoriety, if only a little bit at the time of their lives.
Transcendentalism and romanticism became central ideas for a lot of the writings of the time. We finally started getting fiction stories being written in the United States. Imaginations could start to run wild. The fiction, I believe, made it easier for a lot of authors to get their personal opinions across to their readers (as opposed to just straight up saying their ideas).
I do want to address the fact that some don't appreciate the period being called an American Renaissance since they don't think it's a rebirth as it is just forming. I believe that calling it an American Renaissance is a perfect description of the period. It is a rebirthing because they are remaking their literature image so that it isn't like the stuff of England or the rest of Europe. They are being reborn in the sense that they are writing as Americans and not as Europeans who happened to move to the Americas or Europeans who were born in the American colonies.
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