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Period _____________________
Think about the quotation listed above while you answer the following
questions in this webquest.
Step one: Gain a basic understanding of Transcendentalism
http://womenshistory.about.com/bltranscend.htm?once=true&What is
Transcendentalism?
http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/amtrans.htm
1. What authors are associated with this movement?
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Theraou, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker
2. What century did this movement take place in?
The 19th century
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.html
3. The Transcendentalists stood at the heart of The American Renaissance-the flowering of our nation's thought in ________, _______, ________,
________, _________, and _______ in the period roughly designated from
______-______.
4. What area of the U.S. did this movement begin in?
New England mainly Boston.
5. Emerson attempted to define the philosophy in simple terms as "What is
popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism; Idealism as it
appears in 1842." But it is much larger and more complex than that. How
is it described further along in this paragraph? Idealism was the perfect
idea of a better nation in the 19th century Transcendentalism was making
a better nation through its writings.
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/club.html
13.
Your mission is to find a piece of artwork
(painting/photography/etc) that represents Transcendentalism in some
way. Copy/paste the artwork into this document and explain in at least
2 sentences how this art represents Transcendentalism.