《小妇人》是美国作家奥尔科特在十九世纪根据其自身和她的三姐妹的童年经历写的一部小说。学者大多是从清教主义，教育和女性主义方面等对该小说展开研究的。本文试从超验主义...

本论文拟从超验主义的视角对小说进行解读，竭力探讨小说中所体现出来的超验主义思想，尤其是对四姐妹的影响。论文第一部分主要介绍一下作者和小妇人，第二部分介绍超验主义的...

The most outstanding of all American writers as an essayist and the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism during his lifetime in America, as prophet of his age, Emerson was certainly the most influential among his...

Little Women is a semi-autobiography of Louisa May Alcott. Based on Alcott’s childhood experience with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts, the novel describes the happiness and hardships of the Marches family and the process of growing ...

The major features of New England Transcendentalism can be mainly summarized as three following features. First of all, the Transcendentalists placed emphasis on spirit, as the most important thing in the universe. In the eighteenth century ...

Alcott contracted mercury poisoning during the Civil War service, but she kept writing. In her later years, she entrenched herself into women suffrage and abolition. Louisa May Alcott was dead on 6 March, 1888 in Boston, two days after her f...

What the various Transcendentalists had in common was what they proposed than what they were reacting against. By and large, they were opposed to rigid rationalism; to eighteenth-century empirical philosophy of the school of John Locke...

Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whitman began his course of writing poetry. He has inherited Emerson’s Transcendentalism and furthers it with his own understanding of Transcendentalism, forming his own transcendental thoughts. He shares s...