Hawthorne and Melville met and immediately collaborated on "Moby Dick". They helped spark what became known as the American Renaissance in literature, with writers using the term to describe America's growing literary power. This burst in American literature was influenced by social causes and groups in New England like the Transcendental Club led by Emerson. Emerson promoted Transcendentalism, which grafted ideas from Europe and Asia onto American philosophy. He emphasized intuition over logic and had an optimistic view that appealed to audiences during a period of economic and social challenges.
Hawthorne and Melville met and immediately collaborated on "Moby Dick". They helped spark what became known as the American Renaissance in literature, with writers using the term to describe America's growing literary power. This burst in American literature was influenced by social causes and groups in New England like the Transcendental Club led by Emerson. Emerson promoted Transcendentalism, which grafted ideas from Europe and Asia onto American philosophy. He emphasized intuition over logic and had an optimistic view that appealed to audiences during a period of economic and social challenges.
Hawthorne and Melville met and immediately collaborated on "Moby Dick". They helped spark what became known as the American Renaissance in literature, with writers using the term to describe America's growing literary power. This burst in American literature was influenced by social causes and groups in New England like the Transcendental Club led by Emerson. Emerson promoted Transcendentalism, which grafted ideas from Europe and Asia onto American philosophy. He emphasized intuition over logic and had an optimistic view that appealed to audiences during a period of economic and social challenges.
Hawthorne and Melville met and immediately collaborated on "Moby Dick". They helped spark what became known as the American Renaissance in literature, with writers using the term to describe America's growing literary power. This burst in American literature was influenced by social causes and groups in New England like the Transcendental Club led by Emerson. Emerson promoted Transcendentalism, which grafted ideas from Europe and Asia onto American philosophy. He emphasized intuition over logic and had an optimistic view that appealed to audiences during a period of economic and social challenges.
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207-214) The American Renaissance
Hawthorne and Melville Melville was an ex-sailor with little formal education. He had written a novel about his adventures Nathaniel Hawthorne was 15 years older than Melville and was well educated, reserved, and a bit of a loner. He had recently published The Scarlet Letter They immediately started on the book Moby-Dick Declaration of Liberty Independence Melville very strongly defended America in regards to literary work and said that Hawthorne was the next William Shakespeare Writers used the word renaissance to describe Americas growing power in the field of literature. The word means rebirth Intellectual and Social Life in England The burst of American literature can be traced back to the social ferment of New England The interest in expanding literature was found in the Lyceum Movement which begun in Massachusetts Social causes, both reasonable and crackpot, abounded during this time True Reality is Spiritual Emersons utopian group was called The Transcendental Club For Emerson, Transcendentalism was not a new philosophy but The very oldest of thoughts cast into the mold of these new times Emerson and Transcendentalism: The American Roots Though Emerson had his doubts about the and was skeptical about most ideas and projects, he was the most prominently known figure in the group largely because of his lectures and books Transcendentalism grafted ideas from Europe and Asia into onto a home-grown American philosophical stem The Puritans believed that God revealed himself to people through the Bible and through the physical world Emersons Optimistic Outlook Emersons mystical view of the world sprang not from logic but from intuition Intuition is our capacity to know things spontaneously and immediately through our emotions rather than through our reasoning abilities Emersons sense of optimism appealed to audiences who lived in a period of economic downturns and conflict over slavery