ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Transcendentalism was a philosophy within what larger literary movement?
A
Puritanism
B
American Romanticism
C
The Enlightenment
D
American Realism
Explanation: 

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. Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller were among the principals of the movement. The Transcendentalists believed there is a divine spirit in nature and in every living soul.

Detailed explanation-2: -Transcendentalism was a religious, literary, and political movement that evolved from New England Unitarianism in the 1820s and 1830s.

Detailed explanation-3: -Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Detailed explanation-4: -Transcendentalism is a 19th-century school of American theological and philosophical thought that combined respect for nature and self-sufficiency with elements of Unitarianism and German Romanticism.

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