What are three characteristics of American Romanticism in The Last of the Mohicans?
The characteristics of American Romanticism are: values feelings over reason; places faith in the imagination; shuns civilization and seeks nature; prefers innocence to sophistication; fights for individual’s freedom and worth; reflects on nature to gain spiritual wisdom; finds beauty and truth in supernatural or imaginative realms; sees poetry as the highest work of imagination; and, is inspired by myth, legend, and folklore.