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AMERICAN RENAISSANCE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - a reaction against the Puritan doctrine
        
        Puritan symbols and allegories can be traced in the works by:
        
        Nathaniel Hawthorne
        
        Herman Melville
- - - - German Idealism
      - Political liberalism
      - English Romanticism
      - Eastern mysticism
    - - reality is a single unit
      - contact with nature is the best way to reach the truth
      - the 'over-soul' is the spiritual principle linking everything together
      - man is the emanation of the over-soul
  - - - expressed the optimistic point of view of this philosophy
    - - expressed the belief in the power of human consciousness
    - - Walden, or Life in the woods (1854)
        
        most faithful Emerson's follower, lived alone in a hut in the woods for 2 years to prove that an individual can live in solitude
      - Civil disobedience (1849)
        
        essay stating the right to resist the laws of the State if in conflict with his own convinctions