Literary Period: Transcendentalism By: Katelyn Brook

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
Henry David Thoreau and His Transcendental Journey.
Advertisements

Why is it called Transcendentalism?  Transcend means to exceed, surpass, or go beyond something.
By Matt Barrage, Andy Hickmann, and Tayler Wagner.
The Transcendentalists
American literature New England Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau.
THE PHILOSOPHY, AUTHORS & FAMOUS WORKS.  German Idealism a philosophical movement: emerged in the late 1700’s in Germany The belief that an item’s.
The American Renaissance and Transcendentalism. By the mid- 19th century, people were wondering if America could produce great writing Search for American.
Transcendentalism.
TRANSCENDENTALISM ENGL 3060 American Literature. Regionally located in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts. Religious, philosophical and literary movement.
TRANSCENDENTALISM
Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau.
Transcendentalism. What is Transcendentalism? It is a branch of the tree of American Romanticism. Like the other Romantics, the Transcendentalists celebrated.
A Growing Nation ( ) Literature of the Period.
The Transcendentalists "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first.
American Transcendentalism Mind over matter. Commonalities ► Wrote non-fiction ► Essay, diary, and sermon ► Not art, not argument, but much of it was.
Was an American Transcendentalist poet, philosopher and essayist during the 19th century was an American Transcendentalist poet, philosopher and essayist.
Transcendentalism Definition of Transcendentalism Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement  It was.
Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum
TRANSCENDENTALISM. Hmm…confusing title… what does it mean?
By Lee Williams 491 English Literature Professor Julie Miller University of Phoenix January 14, 2013.
Transcendentalism ( ) An important movement in American philosophy and literature.
Transcend: to go beyond
+ Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau.
Transcendentalism By Jeanne Brock. It’s Famous! "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation.
The Romantic Period of American Literature
Transcending Romanticism The Transcendentalist Movement American Literature.
A literary coming of age  In the mid 1800’s, it was not clear whether America would ever produce a writer as good as William Shakespeare.
Reform & Culture Part 2. Wednesday’s Warm-Up O Using your textbook define: Transcendentalist O (It is in the glossary; write the whole definition!) O.
Transcendentalism:  Began as a reform movement in the Unitarian Church, around 1836  Follows the belief that there is an ideal spiritual state, which.
  Developed as a protest to the culture, society, and politics of the time (New England Renaissance)  More than a literary movement: religion.
American Literature of the 1800’s Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and Frontier Literature.
The Light Romantics The Fireside Poets & Transcendentalists.
Transcendentalists Ideas and Significant Authors:.
Reform & Culture Part 2. Wednesday’s Warm-Up O Using your textbook define: Transcendentalist O (It is in the glossary; write the whole definition!) O.
Transcendentalism By Jeanne Brock. It’s Famous! "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation.
UNIT 4: CULTURAL CONFLICT LESSON 4.4: TRANSCENDENTALISM.
Transcendentalism. To Transcend “To rise above” “To go beyond the limits of” trans (across) scandere (to climb)
Romanticism 1820s-1890s. The Time Period In America, 1820s-1890s In America, 1820s-1890s Development of the Civil War in America meant increased political.
UNIT IV: TRANSCENDENTALISM America’s First Identity Crisis “No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.” -Emerson.
TRANSCENDENTALISM. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe…. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself….,We.
Transcendentalism & Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalism l (1) Resources l (2) Features l (3) Significance.
Transcendentalism & Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalism l (1) Resources l (2) Features l (3) Significance.
By: Gwen, Bianca, & Joe Transcendentalism. 2 ~Transcendentalism was a religious and philosophical movement that flourished in the late 1820’s in the Eastern.
Transcendentalism Transcendentalism A religious, philosophical and literary movement A religious, philosophical and literary movement The movement.
Transcendentalism An important American Literary and Philosophical Movement (though NOT a religion) 1830s to 1860s.
Transcendentalism 19 th century philosophy born out of Romanticism.
American Transcendentalism “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
TRANSCENDENTALISM A distinctly American philosophy Reaction against both Puritanism and the Age of Reason Reaction against the materialism, rationalism,
Transcendentalism Going Beyond Reason. Transcendentalism in philosophy and literature is a belief in a higher reality than that found in sense experience.
Transcendentalism Continuation of notes that began with Romanticism and Anti- Transcendentalism. Put these notes together.
Transcendentalism as a form of social criticism and protest
New England Renaissance
Transcendentalism An important American Literary and Philosophical Movement (though NOT a religion) 1830s to 1860s.
Transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism The Original Hippies
Transcendentalism An important American Literary and Philosophical Movement (though NOT a religion) 1830s to 1860s.
Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau
The Transcendentalists
Bell Work Turn in your DBQ from last Friday if you took it home to complete. Complete your calendars.
Transcendentalism Belief in a higher level of truth that can be attained through human reasoning In determining the ultimate reality of God, the universe,
The Transcendentalists
Transcendentalism Nonconformity Self-Reliance
The Transcendentalists
Bell Work 11/19 The ancient Roman poet Horace gravely advised, “Never despair.” Modern comedian Woody Allen joked that the secret to success in life.
Transcend: [verb] to go beyond the limits of; exceed; be above and independent of the physical universe.
Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum
Transcendentalism An important American Literary and Philosophical Movement (though NOT a religion) 1830s to 1860s.
Transcendentalism.
A Quick Overview of Romanticism and Transcendentalism
The Transcendentalists
Presentation transcript:

Literary Period: Transcendentalism By: Katelyn Brook

Introduction to Transcendentalism A religious, philosophical and literary movement, Transcendentalism arose in New England in the middle of the nineteenth century. Began as a religious concept rooted in the ideas of American democracy.

Time Period Industrialism: A change from hand and home production to machine and factory Goes against the ideas of transcendentalism and connecting with nature Abolition: -eliminated slavery in the United States -those in charge of the slaves were not working for themselves outside being surrounded by nature

Industrialism Industrialism is an economy based on industry. Whether that is a good or bad economy is dependent on what people make of it. Industrialism can provide much needed jobs or ruin the environment; it can boost a failing economy or take advantage of the needs of people.

Abolition This was an Act to get rid of slave trade on March 1807 in the British empire The purpose of this act was to provide apprenticeship

Artistic Conditions stressed the value of rational, order-centered, approaches to art and spirituality as they were expressed in the writings of Locke and Bacon.

The Influence of the Literature High-mindedness Moral earnestness The desire to reform society and education The assertion of a philosophy of the individual as superior to tradition and society.

Difference from other time periods their view of God and God’s role in the lives of people. the belief in the inherent goodness or inherent dark side of human beings the style in which their authors wrote.

Important Authors The most important authors during this time period was Ralph Waldo, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller

Ralph Waldo Emerson Waldo Emerson is truly the center of the American transcendental movement, setting out most of its ideas and values in a little book, Nature, published in 1836 represented at least ten years of intense study in philosophy, religion, and literature, and in his First Series of essays.

Henry David Thoreau A complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life Born In 1817, one of his first memories was of staying awake at night "looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” He never stopped looking into nature for the ultimate Truth.

Margaret Fuller Was born Sarah Margaret Fuller on May 23, 1810 in Cambridge port, Massachusetts. She was a very intelligent, even precocious, child who received an intense education from her father, Timothy Fuller, learning Greek and Latin at a very early age.

Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born on 10th December, 1830, in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts.Regarded as one of America’s greatest poets, is also well known for her unusual life of self imposed social seclusion. she yet wrote poetry of great power; questioning the nature of immortality and death, with at times an almost mantic quality. Her different lifestyle created an aura; often romanticized.

Most Important Works by these Authors The Spiritual Emerson- Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and Poems- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Political Conditions Was a reaction against the newly dispassionate and logical world presented by developing industry and reflected by the Enlightenment movement. American side of this movement, and as such it was also the beginning of the American cultural group's rebellion against traditional European standards

Religious conditions Nineteenth Century American Transcendentalism is not a religion; it is a pragmatic philosophy, a state of mind, and a form of spirituality. It is not a religion because it does not go along with the three concepts common in major religions: a belief in a God, a belief in an afterlife and a belief that this life has consequences on the next.

Social Conditions Associate it with the writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friend Henry David Thoreau. Asked to name things about the group they remember, most mention Emerson’s ringing declaration of cultural independence in his “American Scholar” address at Harvard’s commencement.

Time Period This was the time period during the hippie culture.

Extra Info on Transcendentalism The earliest was the so-called "Transcendental Club" (1836–1840), an informal group that met to discuss intellectual and religious topics; also important was the "Saturday Club," organized much later (1854).

Final Note It originated among a small group of intellectuals who were reacting against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing instead their own faith centering on the divinity of man and nature. Interesting Facts: Its mystical aspects were partly influenced by Indian and Chinese religious teachings. beliefs that God is immanent in man and nature.