Reform Movements
Brianna Lambert
Transcendentalism
Urged people to transcend, or overcome, the limits of their minds and let their souls reach out to embrace the beauty of the universe.
Utopian Movement
Americans decided that society had corrupted human nature. They wanted to separate from society & form a utopia (ideal society).
Transcendentalist Authors
Edgar Allen Poe
He wrote The Rave, A Tell-Tale Heart, etc.
He was an agent of change because nobody was used to reading poetry like his.
Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle
He was an agent of change because he wrote one of the first horror type things.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables
He was an agent of change because of his different style of writing.