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自考英美文学小抄 1. The romantic period Historical Background: 1.American Puritanism 2.New England Transcendental Movement 3.American westward Expansion. ⅠWashington Irving II. Ralph Waldo Emerson I. Emerson’s transcendentalism and his attitude toward nature: 1.Transcendentalism—it is a philosophic and literary movement that flourishes in New England, as a reaction against rationalism and Calvinism. It stressed intuitive understanding of god without the help of the church, and advocated independence of the mind. 2. Emerson’s transcendentalism: The over-soul—it is all-pervading power goodness, fro