Collection 4: American Renaissance
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- What was the common bond between Hawthorne and Melville?
- They both saw the dark side of human existence and sought to record this aspect of human nature in their works.
- What was the word "renaissance" used for?
- It was used to describe the extraordinary explosion of American literary genius.
- What did lyceum organizations include?
- educating adults, training teachers, establishing museums, and instituting social reforms.
- Who was a primary force behind the flowering of American culture?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He helped to inspire numerous reform movements that aimed to improve what?
- public education, slavery, and the status of women.
- Emeron's utopian group became known as _________________.
- The Transcendental Club
- What is transcendental?
- the idea that in determining the ultimate reality of God, the universe, the self, and other important matters, one must transcend every day human experience in the physical world.
- What was transcendentalism for Emerson?
- The very oldest thoughts cast into the mold of these new times.
- Transcendentalists were ____________, but in a broader, more practical sense.
- idealists
- Emerson's outlook on life was _____________.
- optimistic
- What is intuition?
- our ability to learn directly without conscious use of reasoning
- Emerson also emphasized the importance of the _____________.
- individual
- What things did the Dark Romantics have in common with the Transcendentalists?
- They both believed in intuition over reason, sign and symbols in human events, and spirtual facts that lie behind the appearance of nature.
- How are the Dark Romantics and Transcendentalists different?
- The Dark Romantics acknowledged the existence of swin, pain, and evil in human life while the Transcendentalists didn't.
- The DRs explored what?
- the conflict between good and evil, the psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness.
- Trancendentalist saw _________ as a doorway to a mystical world holding important truths.
- nature
- Melville claimed that in ____________ America was very close to producing its own Shakespeare.
- Hawthorne
- In ____________ bookstore, women would hold intellectual meetings.
- Elizabeth Peabody
- What women insisted establishing schools for women so women could be educated?
- Emily Willard
- This women was a transcendentalism, She wrote reviews, was an editor for Dial magazine, and gathered the meetings at Elizabeth Peabody's bookstore.
- Magaret Fuller