American Romanticism In The 19～(th) Century With The Angle Of Western Religious Culture

American Romanticism in the 19th century comes from the pervasion of western culture from Europe to America. In the process of the pervasion, it is strongly influenced by western religious culture and has different showings in all American social and cultural fields. For example, in the field of politics, it propagandizes O'Sullivan's"Manifest Destiny"for the country's will of grabbing for more land. In the field of philosophy, it cultivates American's ideology of democracy, free will and transcendentalism. In the field of literature, it provides the ideal for holding and material for writing. It, moreover, makes an independent American literature by advocating of Christian doctrines and the ideas of equality, liberty and humanity. In the field of art, western religious culture provides carrier and stage for American romantic art in the 19th century, and sets the solid foundation for the development of American national art.This is a survey and a review of American Romanticism in the 19th century with the angle of western religious culture. It aims to give a retrospect and a criticism to the origination, formation, development and exhibition of American Romanticism in the 19th century, and to see the relation between western religious culture and American Romanticism in the 19th century.In the prelude of the dissertation, it firstly sorts and clarifies the concepts of the basic terms and theories of the study. Secondly, it briefly sorts and introduces the contemporary writings for the study, including both general overview of the study of the history of western culture and the summary of the relation between western religious culture and American Romanticism in the 19th century. Besides, in the prelude, it defines the content and the bound of the research.The body of the dissertation is divided into 4 chapters. The 1st chapter reviews the history of the evolution of western religious culture. Moreover, the chapter gives a rough retrospect to the beginning of the thinking trends of Romanticism in Germany, the exhibition in France and the development in Britain. Furthermore, the chapter probes the causes to explain the formation of western religious culture and the rising of Romanticism in Europe. The chapter also studies the forming of the features of American religious culture, the rising and exhibition of Romanticism in America and American Romanticism's European influence. And then, the chapter explicates the exhibition of American Romanticism in the fields of American politics, philosophy, literature and art. The 2nd chapter, with the angle of western religious culture, probes American romantic literature's European source, national consciousness and the exhibition to draw the conclusions that Puritanism and its creeds are the intellectual sources of American romantic literature, and religion is the important content and form of American romantic literature in the 19th century. The 3rd chapter, with the angle of western religious culture, probes American romantic politics, philosophy and art to make a rough conclusion to the influence of western religious culture to American romantic politics, philosophy and art. The 4th Chapter probes the strong religious influence of the history of western intellectual culture by historical review of the relation between religion and the thinking trends of politics, philosophy, literature and art. Furthermore, the chapter explains American Romanticism's European influence under the perspective of the pervasion of western culture, and generally analyses the causes, motivities, characteristics, routes and results of the pervasion of western culture.