American Literature / Unit 7 AML 0622 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Movement's Afterlife in American Prose
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The idea
Transcendentalism supplied later American writing with its most durable postures: the individual against the crowd, nature as a source of truth, the suspicion of institutions, and the essay as a form for thinking aloud. Whitman takes the first, and generations of nature writers take the second.
In practice
The isolate, the woods, the doubt, the essay.
Where people slip
The influence outlasted the philosophy.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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