美国文学Transcendentalism.pptVIP

content Time: 1830s---the out break of the Civil War, the summit of the American Romanticism. Definition Major Doctrines Leading figures The importance: it inspired a whole new generation of famous authors and pushed the American literature into a flourishing period. What is Transcendentalism? The publication of Nature (1836) marked the beginning of New England Transcendentalism, the summit of American Romanticism. “What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us is idealism; idealism as appears in 1842” (Emerson) Knowledge can be obtained through mental process, apart from experiences Do