【正确答案】正确答案：American Romanticism; American Renaissance is the name sometimes given to a flourishing of distinctively American literature in the period before the Civil War, as described by F. O. Mat-thiessen in his influential critical work American Renaissance(1941). American renaissance is represented by the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, H.D.Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. They share certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in individualism and intuitive.