Question

What is an example of transcendentalism in literature? How can you find transcendentalism in a piece of literature?

Answer 1

Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, and Theodore Parker