The Reform Movement
Transcendentalism
Define Transcendentalism
an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.
Washington Irving
This man wrote:
- The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
- Rip Van Winkle
He was an Agent of change because he wrote one of the first horror type things.
Edgar Allen Poe
He Composed
- The Rove
- A Tell-Tale Heart
- The Stylus
He was an "agent of change" because nobody was ever used to reading poetry like his.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wrote the:
- The House of the Seven Gables
- The Scarlet Letter
- Twice-Told Tales
He was an agent of change cause of his different style of script.
What is the biggest idea to come out of the Utopian Movement ?
Americans decided that the society had corrupted human nature. They wanted to separate from society & formed a utopia (ideal society)
The Brook Farm Community
A cooperative community in Massachusetts