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20 Cards in this Set
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What was the common bond between Hawthorne and Melville?
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They both saw the dark side of human existence and sought to record this aspect of human nature in their works.
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What was the word "renaissance" used for?
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It was used to describe the extraordinary explosion of American literary genius.
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What did lyceum organizations include?
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educating adults, training teachers, establishing museums, and instituting social reforms.
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Who was a primary force behind the flowering of American culture?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He helped to inspire numerous reform movements that aimed to improve what?
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public education, slavery, and the status of women.
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Emeron's utopian group became known as _________________.
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The Transcendental Club
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What is transcendental?
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the idea that in determining the ultimate reality of God, the universe, the self, and other important matters, one must transcend every day human experience in the physical world.
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What was transcendentalism for Emerson?
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The very oldest thoughts cast into the mold of these new times.
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Transcendentalists were ____________, but in a broader, more practical sense.
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idealists
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Emerson's outlook on life was _____________.
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optimistic
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What is intuition?
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our ability to learn directly without conscious use of reasoning
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Emerson also emphasized the importance of the _____________.
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individual
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What things did the Dark Romantics have in common with the Transcendentalists?
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They both believed in intuition over reason, sign and symbols in human events, and spirtual facts that lie behind the appearance of nature.
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How are the Dark Romantics and Transcendentalists different?
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The Dark Romantics acknowledged the existence of swin, pain, and evil in human life while the Transcendentalists didn't.
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The DRs explored what?
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the conflict between good and evil, the psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness.
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Trancendentalist saw _________ as a doorway to a mystical world holding important truths.
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nature
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Melville claimed that in ____________ America was very close to producing its own Shakespeare.
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Hawthorne
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In ____________ bookstore, women would hold intellectual meetings.
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Elizabeth Peabody
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What women insisted establishing schools for women so women could be educated?
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Emily Willard
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This women was a transcendentalism, She wrote reviews, was an editor for Dial magazine, and gathered the meetings at Elizabeth Peabody's bookstore.
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Magaret Fuller
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