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transcendentalism  

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  • Transcendentalism was a pre–Civil War movement of theological change and bold literary expression that influenced many institutional and social reforms and helped define the American concept of individualism. Marked by idealism and high moral seriousness, yet notoriously difficult to define, transcendentalism was not a formal movement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Transcendentalism]

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