History of English Literature
Transcendentalism Literature era in U.S
NAMA KELOMPOK :
Aditya Yudha Islamic
Imanuel.S.A.Notanubun
What Is Transcendentalism ?
Transcendentalism is a
philosophical movement that
developed in the late 1820s and
1830s in the eastern United States.
Transcendentalism was a religious,
literary, and political movement
that evolved from New England
Unitarianism in the 1820s and
1830s
Transcendental Club
Transcendental Members
Frederic Henry Hedge, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, George Ripley, and George
Putnam (1807–1878; the Unitarian
minister in Roxbury) met in Cambridge,
Massachusetts on September 8, 1836.
Amos Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson,
Theodore Parker, Henry David Thoreau,
William Henry Channing, James Freeman
Clarke, Christopher Pearse Cranch,
Convers Francis, Sylvester Judd, and
Jones Very. Female members included
Sophia Ripley, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth
Peabody,Ellen Sturgis Hooper, and
Caroline Sturgis Tappan.
The Transcendental Club
was a group of New
England authors,
philosophers, socialists,
politicians and intellectuals
of the early-to-mid-19th
century which gave rise to
Transcendentalism. This
group also consisted many
female authors and thinkers
such as Sophia Ripley and
Margaret Fuller.
Basic Beliefs of Transcendentalism
Everything in the world,
including people are a
reflection of God, or the
Divine soul.
The physical world is a
doorway to the spiritual
world.
People can use intuition to
see God in nature and in
their own souls.
A person---- not society,
the church or
government---- is his or
her own best authority.
Feeling and intuition are
superior to reason and
intellect.
Major Figures in The
Transcendentalist movement :
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Margaret Fuller
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who
went by his middle name
Waldo, was an American
essayist, lecturer,
philosopher, and poet who
led the transcendentalist
movement of the mid-19th
century.
One of his best-known
essays is "Self-Reliance.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May
25, 1803 – April 27, 1882)
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an
American naturalist,
essayist, poet, and
philosopher.
His best-known for his book
is “Walden”. And his essay
"Civil Disobedience“.
Henry David Thoreau (July
12, 1817 - May 6, 1862)
CONCLUSION
The transcendental movement which was a philosophy
that dealt with spiritualityand religion was short lived and
predominantly centralized in the Americanliterary
community but it created a great impact on world
literature as a whole.The transcendental movement
opened the conversation in regards totruth, knowledge
and the American experience.
