LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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the American Renaissance
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American Puritanism
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the American Enlightenment
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American Realism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Transcendentalism, which lasted from about 1830 to 1860, was a vital part of the Romantic movement. Ralph Waldo Emerson was its putative leader.
Detailed explanation-2: -The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War. A central term in American studies, the American Renaissance was for a while considered synonymous with American Romanticism and was closely associated with Transcendentalism.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Transcendentalists stood at the heart of the American Renaissance–the flowering of our nation’s thought in literature, poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music in the period roughly from 1835 to 1880.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dark Romantics focus on human fallibility, self-destruction, judgement, punishment, as well as the psychological effects of guilt and sin. Authors who embrace this genre include Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.