Reform Movements
By;Paulina Corza-Reyes
Transcendentalism
An idealistic philosophic a social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. The biggest idea on coming out of the utopian movement is they wanted to get away from society, more than 100,00 men, women, and children between 1820 and 1860 searched for an alternate life style.
Edgar Allen Poe
He brought a dark side to the transcendentalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strange medley of atheism and false independence.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
He put a romantic twist into his novel he changed the way people thought about religion.
The Brook Farm Utopia
The Brook Farm Utopia sought harmony, the merging of value, spiritual matters.