1. Reform & Culture Part 2

2. Wednesday’s Warm-Up O Using your textbook define: Transcendentalist O (It is in the glossary; write the whole definition!) O Any of a group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience.

3. O I can describe developments in art, music, and literature that are unique to American Culture.

4. Developments in Literature Transcendentalism Transcendentalism – an American literary, political and philosophical movement in the early 19 th Century that stressed the relationship between humans and nature as well as the importance of the individual conscience. Leading Transcendentalists Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Margaret Fuller They were critics of their contemporary society & urged each individual to find their independent relation to the universe, like solitude in nature.