European Romanticism — focus?
Emphasizes connection with nature and individual emotion.
Transcendentalism — role?
Highlights transcendence of perception and spiritual access.
European Romanticism — emphasis?
Nature, individual emotion, subjective experience
Transcendentalism — focus?
Accessing spiritual truths beyond sensory perception
America — influence of European ideas?
Shaped American literature, philosophy, culture
Romanticism — importance of?
Nature and personal intuition
Transcendentalism — key belief?
Transcend sensory limits for spiritual insight
American Renaissance — influences?
Romanticism and transcendentalism blend
Key transcendentalist — Thoreau role?
Promoted nature, solitude, individual conscience
Answer 8 questions on American Transcendentalism and Reform Movements.
1. Which of the following best characterizes European romanticism and transcendentalism?
2. What caused the rise of the temperance movement in early 19th-century America?
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