... behavior and spirit, along with its potential destructiveness, morals, or deliver to readers their dark vision of the world through their literature. Three significant authors that contributed a lot of meaning in their work would be Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and James Russell Lowell. Ralph Waldo Emerson was not only a Transcendental writer, but he led the Transcendentalist group during the Renaissance. In most ... the same thing that built him, referring to God, having the rhodora release a charm that effects his spirit as well. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the writers...

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... dramatically. Americans wanted literature explaining what happened and what was happening to their society. They turned to realism, in the late 19th century. Authors began to create a general picture of present-day life. They pointed out the aspects that American society had in common with the general ... naturalism was more like propaganda. The literary form of Modernism, developing in the late 19th century, was greatly influenced by realism. It influenced wonderful authors such as William Faulkner and a personal favorite of mine, Ernest Hemingway. All three techniques wanted to help th...

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