LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Highlighting the “fantastic” elements of the human experience
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Human emotion and feeling were valued over reason
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Taking one through supernatural or imaginative settings
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The romantic period of American literature took place from 1830 to 1870 and emphasized nature, symbolism, transcendentalism, and individualism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Romantic literature is marked by six primary characteristics: celebration of nature, focus on the individual and spirituality, celebration of isolation and melancholy, interest in the common man, idealization of women, and personification and pathetic fallacy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Imagination, emotion, and freedom are certainly the focal points of romanticism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Belief in natural goodness of man, that man in a state of nature would behave well but is hindered by civilization. Sincerity, spontaneity, and faith in emotion as markers of truth. ( Belief that what is special in a man is to be valued over what is representative; delight in self-analysis. More items •04-Jul-2013