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Transcendentalism

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, Transcendentalism means: A nineteenth-century American movement valuing intuition, individual conscience and spiritual connections with nature.

In Turkish: Aşkıncılık, Transandantalizm

How it is used

Use in American literary history, especially when discussing self-reliance, nature and individual judgment.

Example sentences

  1. The lecture connected Transcendentalism with the essay's trust in personal conscience.

    Individual judgment is treated as a source of moral authority.

  2. Our reading of Transcendentalism asks why the woodland becomes a place of spiritual discovery.

    Nature is approached as a setting for inner understanding.

Common collocations

  • American Transcendentalism
  • the influence of Transcendentalism
  • RomanticismA movement in literature and art from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that valued emotion, imagination, nature and the individual over reason and rules.
  • literary movementA group of writers in a particular period who share similar ideas, styles and aims, such as Romanticism, Realism or Modernism.

More terms: Literary Movements

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