Changes in Art and Literature by Jessica Pham https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5 Sarah Sporn, Charlee Liu, Johnny Pham, Jessica Pham en-us 2017-10-31 16:47:45 UTC 2026-01-25 14:25:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Transcendentalism phamjohnny3 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202234377 In the nineteenth century, there came a popular intellectual movement, transcendentalism, emphasizing the idea that all people have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that goes beyond what you can see, hear, taste, touch, and feel.

]]> 2017-10-31 16:49:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202234377 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) phamjohnny3 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202235253
  • Leading voice of transcendentalism
  • Believed that individuals were trapped by inherited customs and institutions
  • Traditions could only be remade through the communion with nature
    • ]]>     2017-10-31 16:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202235253     Appealed to many middle class farmers phamjohnny3 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202237867
  • Allowed them to escape their traditions
  • Opportunity in the urban industry
    • ]]>     2017-10-31 16:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202237867     sarahjewel19 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202237902 2017-10-31 16:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202237902 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) liucharlee https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202238483
  • "Life in the woods"
  • Advocated for thorough individuality and peacefully resisting unjust laws
    • ]]>     2017-10-31 16:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202238483     sarahjewel19 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202238559 2017-10-31 16:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202238559 Cause jessica_pham_501 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202238756 Emerson created Brook Farm (1840), to create a community separate from the pressures of society.]]> 2017-10-31 16:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202238756 Effect jessica_pham_501 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202239389 With the failure of Brook Farm, the Emersonians abandoned their quest for new social institutions and accepted the brute reality of commercial and industrial order and tried to reform it through education of workers and abolition of slavery.

    ]]>     2017-10-31 16:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202239389     "Leaves of Grass" (1855) phamjohnny3 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202241744
  • Walt Whitman
  • Collection of wild, exuberant poems
  • Emersonian ideal of “original relations” with nature
    • ]]>     2017-10-31 17:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202241744     Foundations phamjohnny3 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202247510 First advocates were Unitarian ministers from New England who questioned the constraints of their Puritan heritage. 

    ]]>     2017-10-31 17:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/202247510     Significance jessica_pham_501 https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/203022928 The idea of Transcendentalism gave people the opportunity to develop new and independent traditions/culture.]]> 2017-11-02 17:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_pham_501/rca83gdmwmj5/wish/203022928