PPT-19 th Century American Transcendentalism

October 18 th 2010 Margaret Fuller and The Great Lawsuit Man versus Men and Woman versus Women 1843 How does Fuller characterize the positions of men and women how does she try to reframe the relationship between the sexes. The 60’s (1800’s style). Get your Composition Notebooks. Out, please!. Romantics and Transcendentalism . Both movements . emphasized an aesthetic experience identifying new emotions . such as . anxiety, awe, terror, and horror. Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in . literature. , . religion. , . culture. , and . philosophy. emerged in New England in the early-to mid 1800’s.. Influences:. Greek philosopher, Plato, who believed that ideas not “things” are the most important element in life.. “ It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, always do what you are afraid to do.”. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Transcendentalism. Emerson first expressed his philosophy in his essay “Nature”.. Poe, Irvin, Hawthorn, Emerson, . Thoreau. , Whitman, etc... Romanticism. A literary movement originally “invented” by European writers that was then adopted and popularized by American writers in the early 1800s. Light Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, Transcendentalism . Romanticism as a Journey. Away from . Corruption of civilization. Limits of rational thought. Romanticism as a Journey. Toward. Integrity of nature. SchoolRoom. Poets, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Optimists & Pessimists. Romanticism . Individualism. Nature. Imagination. Distant. SchoolRoom. poets. -Taught in a school. -Memorized. -Cultural provincialism [Universality]. Transcend: to go beyond. What is transcendentalism?. Philosophy that began in the 1830’s . Mostly consisted of New Englanders (i.e. Transcendental . C. lub of Boston, headed by Ralph Waldo Emerson). By Kiera Rae & Jacob Smith. What is Transcendentalism?. Transcendentalism is a religious movement that arose around the 1820-1830s. Based around a set of beliefs, people who followed these beliefs believed in self reliance and being one with nature. This movement was started to combat the way the government was going and to embrace ones self and spirituality.. 1607-1692. Key Concept 2.1: Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns, influenced by different imperial goals, cultures, and the varied North American environments where they settled, and they competed with each other and American Indians for resources. A 19. th. century literary and philosophical movement, based in New England, claiming that the individual conscience and intuition are key to finding truth, rather than the basic senses and logical reason.. Father of Transcendentalism . Famous Quotes. The only way to have a friend is to be one” . “To be great is to be misunderstood” . “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” . and try to figure out what the term “transcendentalism” might mean.. With a partner, make . a . list on your board: . What . does a person have to . believe. in order to be a transcendentalist? . . i. n American Literature. 1800-1870. http://www.honors.uiuc.edu/eng255/lectures/12-13.html. Historical and Cultural Background. Write down the essential questions. :. What is the relationship between place and literature?. They struggled to define spirituality and religion in light of the spread of deism / Unitarianism, and the reason and logic of the Enlightenment.. An argument against traditional religious views had come out of the religion largely based on the work of John Locke..