Vocabulary
a name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason.
what is romaticism?
A transcendentalist who thought transcendentalism was not a new concept.
“The very oldest of thoughts cast into the mold of these new times.”
who is Emerson ?
Refers to the idea that in determining the ultimate reality of God, the universe, and other important matters, one must transcend
What is transcendentalism?
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe
who where the anti- transcendentalists ?
understand reality without logic or analysis
What is intuitive thinking ?
the author of Arthur Mervyn
who is Charles Brockden?
a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response
what is rationalism?
He wrote about his journey from Boston to Philadelphia
who is Benjamin Franklin?
true reality being found in ideas rather than in the world as perceived by senses
what is idealism ?
He called science a “vulture” with wings of “dull realities,”
who is Edgar Allen Poe?