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Article: Transcendentalism
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TRANSCENDENTALISM
TRANSCENDENTALISM
was a movement for religious renewal, literary innovation, and social transformation. Its ideas were grounded in the claim that divine truth could be known intuitively. Based in New England and existing in various forms from the 1830s to the 1880s, transcendentalism is usually considered the principal expression of romanticism in America. Many prominent ministers, reformers, and writers of the era were associated with it, including Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803
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1882), Henry David Thoreau (1817
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1862), Margaret Fuller (1810
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1850), Theodore Parker (1810
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1860), Bronson Alcott (1799
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1888), and Orestes Brownson (1803
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