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Lumen: American Romanticism: Video: American Gothic (I)

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Use the video American Gothic (I) [1:05:50] to identify and understand American Gothic as a part of American Romanticism. It features discussions of the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism; Alexander Pope's "Windsor-Forest"; pastoralism; the graveyard school; fancy and imagination; Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Wordsworth's preface to Lyrical Ballads; William Cullen Bryant; and the Doppelganger.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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