ENG 3210 Chapter Notes - Chapter Wieland: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jane Austen, Melting Pot
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Typical of the american philosophy: importance of hard work and individual merit instead of ancestral accomplishments, chapter 12. This age is destined to see the tattered garments exchanged for a new suit . Movement with romanticism: writers: poe (dark romantic), jane austen, rousseau (french), gerta (german), Byron, wordsworth: more interested in individual experience and emotion rather than enlightenment and age of reason or science, important to have experiences and think about them. Melting pot of belief systems: european romanticism, typical christianity, hinduism, Buddhism, quakerism, unitarianism; becomes a real melting pot of ideas: showing flaws of typical american life: materialism and conformity. Transcendentalism: comes from the fundamental belief that people can have lives bigger than the ones that they are currently living. Ex: pycheons could experience more and be more connected to god and the universe. All mean egotism vanishes : all the stuff that"s on our mind and the concerns and worries we carry can disappear through nature.
