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Selected Readings in American Literature Unit 3 爱默生 Emerson = The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism 超验主义 He was a descendent of a long line of New England clergymen牧师 American Transcendentalism As a philosophical and literary movement, American Transcendentalism (also known as “ American Renaissance”) flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. It is the high tide of American romanticism and its doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in Emerson and Thoreau. Transcendentalists spoke for the cultural rejuvenation and against the