Transcendentalists

1836–1868

Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Alcott. The American flowering of the 1830s–1860s — self-reliance, nature, conscience, the moral life of the new republic.

4 works4 authors3 genres

essaymemoir/philosophynovel

Self-Reliance and Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson·1844

essaymoderate

6.0/10 influence7.0/10 popularity

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne·1850

novelmoderate

6.5/10 influence7.5/10 popularity

Walden or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau·1854

memoir/philosophymoderate

6.5/10 influence7.5/10 popularity

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott·1868

novelaccessible

6.0/10 influence8.5/10 popularity