... 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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