ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following were well-known Transcendental authors and thinkers?
A
Ralph Waldo Emerson
B
Henry David Thoreau
C
Margaret Fuller
D
Edgar Allan Poe
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Transcendentalism attracted such diverse and highly individualistic figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Orestes Brownson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and James Freeman Clarke, as well as George Ripley, Bronson Alcott, the younger W.E. Channing, and W.H. Channing.

Detailed explanation-2: -Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), one of the most important American feminists of her day, was a philosopher, journalist, and literary critic. She belonged to the New England intellectual community called the transcendentalists, who also included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two of the most famous and influential transcendentalists. Some influential transcendentalists, such as Margaret Fuller, were early pioneers of feminism.

Detailed explanation-4: -She is particularly remembered for her landmark book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), which examined the place of women within society. Fuller was an extremely precocious child.

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