... not a clearly conceived system, it does tend to present certain characteristics: there is often a tendency toward primitivism, an interest in nature and the natural world, a pressuring of the past, and a foregrounding of the concerns of individualism. American romanticism shares a number of characteristics with British romanticism, but it has its own uniquely American characteristics as well, growing ... as was Hawthorne, Melville is particularly well known for his novel Moby-Dick. His work explores a variety of concerns central to the romantic movement. In reading Melville's Bartleby t...

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