Whitmania: Addendum

After reading the article about sight and sound I used for the previous round of Whitmania, I realised a parallel between the Americans and the British. Both were fighting against the dominant culture of their time. The British Romantics were trying to the undermine the power and influence of the Enlightenment by finding solitude and inspiration from nature and everday people. The Americans were also fighting against something. They were fighting the influence of their colonial power and the culture is sought to impose on them. Both movements wanted break from what they saw as an environment that was stifling them.