ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Transcendentalists who had advanced social reforms that included efforts to increase rights for women, labor, and the indigent redirected their energies toward extinguishing the institution of slavery.

Detailed explanation-2: -Abolition was a movement that began in the early 1830s that focused on the idea that slaves deserved to be free. These ideas brought by Transcendentalists were echoed, modified, and amplified by the voices of countless Garrisonians, Freed Slaves, and non-Garrisonians.

Detailed explanation-3: -Both have individualism as the central concept. In the feminist faction, women are empowered to make individual decisions. On the contrary, in transcendentalism, individualism is emphasized in all aspects of life.

Detailed explanation-4: -Transcendentalists advocated the idea of a personal knowledge of God, believing that no intermediary was needed for spiritual insight. They embraced idealism, focusing on nature and opposing materialism.