What is Transcendentalism?

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Transcendentalism was a religious/literature movement that began around 1830s and 1840s in New England. It emerged from English and German Romanticism. They believed in the inherent goodness of people and nature. Transcendentalism is related to Unitarianism, which was also a religious movement in Boston, Massachusetts at that time.

The Transcendentalism period was a generation of well educated people who created a unique American body of literature. Ever since the Americans had won independence from England, they tried to create literature, essays, novels that were different from England or European nation. Also, they looked at the world through common sense categories like time and space. For time, they believed that time brought all good things to end and brings life into the dead. For space, they believed that space separates people from their loved ones and places that they wanted to be.

Some important transcendentalism writers include Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. These two people were the main writers during the transcendentalist period and they were also the main figures to spread this unique type of literature around the nation. They inspired many people with their different tenets, such as individualism and being one with nature.

Sources: http://www.transcendentalists.com/what.htm

https://www.britannica.com/event/Transcendentalism-American-movement