Emerson And The Transcendentalist Movement

Transcendentalism was a movement in philosophy, literature and religion that emerged in the nineteenth century to have originated from New England. The popular movement flourished in America after the American and Industrial Revolution. The philosophical movement expressed and reformed a new way of ideas that changed the way man understood their beliefs, along with knowing where their place is in the world while the society was changing. Transcendental philosophy as well saw that nature presented a way to free the mind and make a connection between the self and the spirit. Transcendentalists embraced the Romantic concept of potentiality in the individual, specifically the imagination. This literary movement had a powerful impact on the literature that was being produced at the time that these Transcendentalists took the …show more content…
As said previously, Ralph Waldo Emerson was presumed to be the father of the Transcendental Movement, however Margaret Fuller had a great impact on the development as well. “The Dial” was her true published piece, a journal devoted to the prominence of the Transcendentalists. “The Dial” reveals the heart, soul, and mind of the Transcendental Movement. Since Margaret Fuller was a very successful and active feminist reformer out of all the Transcendentalists, she focused on women in literature, education, mythology and philosophy. Fuller tried to enrich and dignify women’s place in society. Like Thoreau and Emerson, she calls for intervals of withdrawal from a society whose members are in various states of “distraction” and a return only after “the renovation fountains” of distinction