... and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's earthy opposite," as Lawrence Buell characterizes this convention--has thrived, particularly in the greening of literary studies known as ecocriticism. (3) To consider an influential example, in "Natures Economy" (1994) Donald Worster locates, in Thoreau's work of the 1850's, the emergence of ... to Thoreau's "contact"): "A metonym is a condensation of its context"; "metonymy conserves perception of the world of objects, conserves their quiddity, their particular precisions." In lingu...

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... ; of the eighteen hundreds, and many other writers and thinkers during the time "sought to come to terms" with him (Baym 211). According to Dr. Watson in her lecture titled "Emerson and Transcendentalism," Transcendentalism was a religious, philosophical, and literary movement which rejected Enlightenment empiricism and the thoughts of John Locke (Watson 17 Feb 2015). Transcendentalists celebrated the self ... Nineteenth century. By the time she died in 1850 at the young age of forty, Fuller had already published nearly three hundred works "emerging as one of the best literary critics of...

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... religious tradition of the early Puritans) and the emergence of Unitarianism and Deism. This marked a growing liberality in religious thought and practice, and this period was significant in terms of religious searching and the development of new forms of religious thought. Other institutional influences on American romanticism include the rise and professionalization of science, against which Romantic writers reacted ... matter of intuition and imagination than logic and reason. Aesthetically, the romantics were also in a state of revolt, primarily against the restraints of classicism a...

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Define the term "Transcendentalism" and give its main representatives. American Transcendentalism is a philosophical and literary movement which took place during the late 1820s and 1830s. It originated among a small group of intellectuals who were reacting against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the ... found the clue to nature, history and ultimately, the cosmos itself. It is not a rejection of the existance of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual; - the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the i...

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