Utopian Movement
By:Kamaron Lazenby
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism-a system developed by Immanuel Kant, based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process that governs the nature of experience. An idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism.
Brook Farm
Brook farm was a nineteenth century utopian community and was founded by unitararian minister George Ripley
Noah Webster
In 1806 webster published his first dictionary, a Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, he made this dictionary to standardize american speech, and with his dictionary he made speech more similar throughout out America
Edgar Allan Poe
The writer of The Raven, Tamerlane and other poems. Edgar Allan Poe was known as the detective fiction genre
Washington Irving
The author of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and he advocated for stronger laws that would protect authors such as himself