Essay
The Scarlet Letter and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s America
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the strange American author who has never been out of fashion; since his death in 1864, his stories and novels have resisted the tides of taste, canon...
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Transcendentalism and Social Reform
Those Americans who have heard of American Transcendentalism...
Glossary Term – Event
Emerson’s “American Scholar” speech
Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his “American Scholar” speech at Harvard. Wendell Holmes called the speech “America’s intellectual declaration of independence.”
Glossary Term – Organization
transcendentalists
Transcendentalists were members of the nineneenth-century movement, based in New England, of writers and thinkers who subscribed to a philosophy emphasizing the unity of the natural world, Romantic ideas, and personal experience and revelation. Leaders of the transcendental movement included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller.
Glossary Term – Place
Brook Farm
Brook Farm was a utopian community formed in 1841 and in operation until 1847. It was established by former Unitarian minister George Ripley as a communal community in which intellectuals, farmers, and craftspersons and their families lived and worked. The community placed major emphasis on education and intellectual freedom, and attracted interest and support from many famous writers and thinkers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Horace Greeley. The utopian experiment at Brook Farm ultimately failed, however, after...