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  1. Nationalism and the Romantic Hero
    1. Love of liberty and nationalistic sentiment
    2. Larger-than-life personality
    3. Egotism, individualism, and imagination
  2. The Romantic Hero
    1. Nineteenth century's first romantic hero: Napoleon
    2. Favorite fictional hero: Prometheus
      1. Mary Shelley
      2. Byron
      3. Pushkin
    3. American Prometheans: The Abolitionists
      1. Douglass
      2. Sojourner Truth
      3. Writers of slave songs and spirituals
    4. Another fictional hero: Goethe's Faust
  3. The Romantic Heroine
    1. Popular stereotypes
    2. Sand and other female writers





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