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Romanticism in America
• Romanticism in America
• Transcendentalism
• Emerson and Thoreau
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Key terms
• Calvinism The Christian denomination based upon the doctrines of John Calvin, which place emphasis on the sovereignty of
God and which distinctively include the doctrine of predestination (that a special few are predetermined for salvation, while
others cannot attain it).
• Calvinism The Christian denomination based upon the doctrines of John Calvin, which place emphasis on the sovereignty of
God and which distinctively include the doctrine of predestination (that a special few are predetermined for salvation, while
others cannot attain it).
• Fugitive Slave Law The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18,
1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This was one of
the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy". It declared
that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that
were used to track down runaway slaves.
• rationalism The theory that the basis of knowledge is reason rather than experience or divine revelation.
• Romanticism 18th Century artistic and intellectual movement which stressed emotion, freedom, and individual imagination.
• Sensualism a philosophical doctrine of the theory of knowledge, according to which sensations and perception are the basic
and most important form of true cognition.
• transcendentalism A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound
together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on the belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic
and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.
• transcendentalism A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound
together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on the belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic
and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.
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James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist and political writer
In his very popular novels, such as Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper expressed romantic ideals about the relationship between men and
nature.
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Washington Irving, American Writer and Historian
Washington Irving's writings, such as the Legends of Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow, contained romantic elements such as the celebration of nature
and romantic virtues such as simplicity.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, c. 1856
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Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Original title page for Henry David Thoreau's masterpiece, Walden.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, c. 1857
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The Dial
July 1843 issue of The Dial, featuring Margaret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit," which later became her important work Women in the Nineteenth Century.
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American Romanticism endorsed which of the following ideas?
A) The natural world was fallen and evil
B) Individual freedom should be curtailed in the service of the state
C) Powerful emotions were the source of great unhappiness and
unfreedom
D) Religious traditions could be deeply confining
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American Romanticism endorsed which of the following ideas?
A) The natural world was fallen and evil
B) Individual freedom should be curtailed in the service of the state
C) Powerful emotions were the source of great unhappiness and
unfreedom
D) Religious traditions could be deeply confining
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Which of the following ideas or institutions is closely associated
with American Transcendentalism?
A) The Unitarian Church
B) John Locke
C) The goodness of the natural world
D) Physical experience
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Which of the following ideas or institutions is closely associated
with American Transcendentalism?
A) The Unitarian Church
B) John Locke
C) The goodness of the natural world
D) Physical experience
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Which of the following correctly matches a Transcendentalist
thinker with an important work or project?
A) Thoreau -- "Civil Disobedience"
B) Thoreau -- "American Scholar"
C) Emerson -- "Walden"
D) Emerson -- criticism of the Fugitive Slave Law and defense of
abolitionist Joh
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Which of the following correctly matches a Transcendentalist
thinker with an important work or project?
A) Thoreau -- "Civil Disobedience"
B) Thoreau -- "American Scholar"
C) Emerson -- "Walden"
D) Emerson -- criticism of the Fugitive Slave Law and defense of
abolitionist Joh
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