Abstract

INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MOVEMENT ON THOREAU

Dr. Shadan Jafri

Volume: 6 Issue: 1 2016

Abstract:

American Transcendentalism was essentially an indigenous movement, which though showed foreign inflames developed along independent lines in American-Literature. First appearing as, ‘The latest form of infidelity’ and later recognised for the importance of its literary contributors, it was perhaps the major liberating force of the period and as such made significant contributions to a number of areas. Transcendentalism was a developing movement and not a static philosophy.

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