2) Transcendentalism Flashcards
When Transcendentalism developed?
around 1830s in New England
Which club was nicknamed the “Transcendentalist Club”?
The Hedge Club
What is the name of the Transcendentalist journal?
The Dial
Basic principles of Transcendentalism
influenced by European Romanticism, criticism of the 18th century rationalism, criticism of religion, idealism, individualism and self-reliance, optimism, belief in the essential goodness, philosophical and spiritual focus
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, American Scholar, Essays: First Series, Second Series, Representative Men, Poems
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience, Walden, or Life in the Woods
Who was Thoreau’s mentor?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Fuller
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Who is considered the Father of American Nature Writing?
Henry David Thoreau
Who was the editor of The Dial?
Margaret Fuller
Which essay was written in response to being in jail for refusing to pay a toll tax collected to support the Mexican-American War?
Civil Disobedience
In which person is Walden, or Life in the Woods narrated?
first person, autobiographical story
What is the setting of Walden, or Life in the Woods?
Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts
