What is the American Renaissance?

An American version of European Romanticism

Check the INCORRECT Point for Brook Farm

The only utopian community at the time

Check the CORRECT Point for Unitarianism

Liberal branch of Protestantism

Check the INCORRECT point for Transcendentalism

Strong influence of art and atheist movements

What did he declare the American Renaissance?

the defining moment of American literature

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The American Renaissance

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1
Which are Ralph Waldo Emerson's major essays? Check the INCORRECT one
"The Poet"
"Nature"
"The American Novice"
"Experience"
2
What is the American Renaissance?
An American version of European Sentimentalism
An American version of European Romanticism
An American version of European Renaissance
An American version of European Scepticism
3
Check the INCORRECT Point for Brook Farm
Nathaniel Hawthorne a founding member
Utopian community, social reform project
The only utopian community at the time
Founded by George and Sophia Ripley
4
Check the CORRECT Point for Unitarianism
Liberal branch of Protestantism
Religious reform movement from US, very popular in Europe
Envisioning a stern and punishing God
Embracing the belief of the holy trinity + eternal damnation
5
Check the INCORRECT point for Transcendentalism
Reform movements, political protest
Philosophical+poetical 'branch' of American Renaissance
Strong influence of art and atheist movements
Strong influence of European philosophy and poetry
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What did he declare the American Renaissance?
the begin of the decline of American literature
the beginning of radical break with Europe
the defining moment of American literature
the defining moment of religious reincarnation
7
Who coined the term American Renaissance?
F. O. Matthiassen
F. O. Matthiessen
O. F. Matthiessen
F. U. Matthessen
8
Who wrote "Let them be sea-captains, if they will"?
Sophia Ripley
Walt Whitman
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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How is Transcendentalism different to Transzendentalphilosophie? Check the INCORRECT point
more rigorous
loose system of thought
less systematical
less rigorous
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Check the INCORRECT Person for Tranzendentalphilosophie
Friedrich Schlegel
Wilhelm Schelling
Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich von Hardenberg

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