Anti-Transcendentalism,alsocalleddarkromanticism,wasaliterarymovementthatfocusedonthedarksideofhumansociety.Itarosearoundthesametimeastranscendentalism.NathanielHawthorne,HermanMelville,andEdgarAllenPoewerethe"DarkRomantics"oftheAnti-Transcendentalistsmovement.However,HawthorneandMelvillewerethemostmonumentalwriter...
Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Anti-transcendentalismRomanticism, Transcendentalism, Gothic, AntiTranscendentalismA Vision of Death
Building on recent scholarship that portrays Transcendentalists as sympathetic to the antislavery cause, this essay argues that Higginson's militant approach to abolitionism drew directly on key components of Transcendentalism. It thereby offers a fresh interpretation of the emergence of antislavery ...