Transcendentalism vs. Anti-Transcendentalism <Tab/> 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 …showed first 75 words of 1212 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1212 total…of human nature and human potential. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were both transcendentalist authors who had very similar views on these and other topics, while Nathaniel Hawthorne was the main anti-transcendentalist author who disagreed on many of these same topics. The transcendentalists and anti-transcendentalists were both influential literary groups of the 19th century and will be forever remembered as factions with conflicting views on the popular literary topics of yesterday, today, and