ByLee Williams

491 English LiteratureProfessor Julie MillerUniversity of Phoenix

January 14, 2013

Continuity exists between man, nature, and God, or the divine .

What is beyond nature is revealed through nature; nature is itself a symbol, or an indication of a deeper reality.

Matter and spirit are not opposed but reflect a critical unity of experience.

Plan always precedes action. In the individual can be discovered all truths, all experience.

Information: Retrieved from http://www.iep.utm.edu/emerson/

Literature, Poetry, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, and Music

Boston & Concord, MA Writers Politics & Religious Corrupted the

Individual Self-reliant & Independent Community of Transcendentalists

Self confidence of Nation Diversity of Religious Citizen more involved in politics. New ways of thinking Religious tone was hopeful and upheaval

Focused on Themes like Romanticism and Transcendentalism

The Effects of Politics and Religions movements

Help Citizens create self-worth

Louisa May Alcott Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau

Transcendentalist and strict parents Intellectual Friends Little Women, published in 1868 Abolitionist & Feminist Women Suffrage The Protagonist In her Books Chronic Health Issues

Image: Louis May Alcott

Father was a Minister American Essayist, Lecturer, & Poet Philosophical & Literary Movement Attended Harvard College Famous for Essay, Nature Anti-Slavery

Image: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax reister, development critic, surveyor, historian, & leading transcendentalist

Born to a Pencil Maker Civil Disobedience Attended Concord Academy & Harvard College Best Known for his book Walden Refused to pay Poll Taxes

Image: Henry David Thoreau

Louisa Alcott was able to be a successful writer in a male dominated society. She wrote books that represent her life.

Ralph Emerson was considered the father of transcendentalism and led the beliefs of a new way of thinking.

Henry Thoreau thought the government should have less power and treat people as neighbors of the state.

Religion, writers and artists played a major role during the Renaissance that help shaped the course of Western history and continues to influence modern American culture.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Retrieved from

http://www.iep.utm.edu/emerson/

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