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21 kwi 2022 · In Whitman’s America, the free body shapes its own evolution toward a happy ending. There has never been a civilization healthier than Whitman’s America. Democracy is the natural state of the body politic, the gymnasium for “freedom’s athletes,” and faith is the “antiseptic of the soul.”
Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States.
22 lis 2017 · Transcendentalism was an American literary movement that emphasized the importance and equality of the individual. It began in the 1830s in America and was heavily influenced by German philosophers such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Immanuel Kant, along with English writers like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The Transcendentalists' most consequential contact with the painter's art came in the spring of 1839, when a large exhibition of the works of Washington Allston, America's foremost artist, opened at the Boston gallery of portraitist Chester Harding (Ellis; Exhibition).
New England transcendentalism is the first significant literary movement in American history, notable principally for the influential works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau. The movement emerged in the 1830s as a religious challenge to New England Unitarianism.
Spiritual truths and transcendence to a higher state of being could be witnessed and experienced through all that nature placed before the American people. Hudson River School paintings captured the emotional and contemplative forces found in the American landscape.
23 paź 2024 · 1830 - 1855. Location: New England. United States. Context: Romanticism. Key People: Bronson Alcott. William Ellery Channing. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Margaret Fuller. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Top Questions. What is Transcendentalism? Which authors were attracted to Transcendentalism? What inspired Transcendentalism?
