Essay from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 9, International Islamic University, course: American Transcendentalists, language: English, abstract: This essay provides insight into two important social ideals in the 19th century - the american transcendentalism and, by comparison, the english romanticism. The fokus will hereby be on the former, while the latter will provide a source of delineating characteristics established through contrasting both against each other. To fully enclose the concept of american transcendentalism, the essay will examine both the religious and philosophical as well as the literary and general cultural aspects of the movement.