AMS 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: James Fenimore Cooper, Andrew Jackson Downing, The Celestial Railroad
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The heart over the head . where people swayed people through emotions. Shift of the enlightenment worldview into a romantic world view. Leaving the analytic approach to the world, into free association. Leaving the puritan notion of convincing people through reason, but the evangelical thing. Fr mont, the making of unknown countries known, learning first-hand about nature herself, studying without books. Native americans considered the noble savage , not saved by god, but had not experienced the sin from the garden of eden or whatever. Typee , herman melville"s first book, a first person account of a sailor on a whaling voyage and gets marooned on an island with non-white people who had never seen a white person before. White men were corrupting the native in polynesia relative civilization of the east. this is where jefferson"s yeoman farmers would settle. Middle ground , the melding area in the us between the western frontier and the.
