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American Romanticism Ralph Waldo Emerson Instructor: Huang Jiajia Outline Historical Background and Ideology American Romanticism Transcendentalism Representative Writers and Their Works Ralph Waldo Emerson Historical Background and Ideology 1810-1861 the population of the seventeen states totaled 7,000,000 to more than 31,000,000 in fifty years. Before 1860 the United States had begun to change into an industrial and urban society. By the 1850s the level of education and literacy had risen significantly. The Westward Expansion American Romanticism I In the first half of the 19th century,