Transcendentalism vs. Anti-transcendentalism

Transcendentalism vs. Anti-Transcendentalism
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During the years from about 1836 until 1860, an American literary movement was taking place called transcendentalism. The geographical center of this movement was Concord, Massachusetts, and the transcendentalists included authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" and Emerson's "Self-Reliance" were major works of the transcendentalist movement. At the same time when this movement was taking place, another movement which sought to counter-act it was also happening. This mov…