... for some of the later Romantic writers and is apparent in their work. Transcendentalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, firmly believed that the individual should separate from society's norms and institutions. Margaret Fuller, who was also a transcendentalist, had radical beliefs about the roles of women and desired for there to be drastic change in women's rights. Finally, ... was writing about, believed in equality and pushed for democracy and individualism. Writing in the Nineteenth Century, Romantics such as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman had radical be...

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