Title: Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Headings: Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Content: In its intense focus on the individual consciousness, it was both a continuation of and a reaction against the Enlightenment. ( Romanticism)
Romanticism did emphasize the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental. ( Britannica)
Romantic literature displayed a number of recurrent motifs: the theme of the individual in rebellion; the symbolic interpretation of the historic past; subjects from myth and folklore; the glorification of nature; faraway settings; sentimentalism; the nobility of the uncivilized man (the Native American, for example);