Transcendentalism and American Literary Realism

1. Transcendentalism and American Literary Realism From Emerson to Harper

2. Transcendentalism and American Literary Realism

3. 200 Quote 1 • “Let us inquire, to what end is nature?” -Nature (550) Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. 300 Quote 1 “In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.” Nature (552)

5. 300 Quote 2 • Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine. Nature (558)

6. 100 Quote 1 • Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us, by the powers they supply, to action proportioned by nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also.” • (550) Nature

7. Freebie! Quote 2 -Walden, (832)

8. 100 Quote 3 Walden (832)

9. 200 Quote 2 • Old shoes will serve a hero longer than they have served his valet,--if a hero ever has a valet,--bare feet are older than shoes, and he can make them do. • (793) Walden

10. 200 Quote 3 • “Of what use this measuring of me if she does not measure my character, but only the breadth of my shoulders, as it were a peg to hang the coat on?” • Walden (794)

11. 100 Quote 4 • “I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both North and South.” • (784). Walden

12. 300 Quote 3 Man wanted a home, a place of warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections. (796) Walden (Picture is Walden Pond at Sunset)

13. Freebie! Quote 4 • With this opulence and splendor, these creeds, classes, egotisms, that streamed through Romper on the rails day after day, they had no color in common. “The Blue Hotel” 1721

14. 100 Quote 5 • The Palace Hotel, then, was always screaming and howling in a way that made the dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska seem only a gay swampish hush. • 1721 Crane’s “The Blue Hotel”

15. 200 Quote 5 • He said that some of these Western communities were very dangerous; and after his statement he straightened his legs under the table, tilted his head, and laughed again, loudly. • 1722 “The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane

16. 100 Quote 6 • We are all in it! This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb. Every sin is the result of a collaboration. (1739)

17. 300 Quote 4 • The air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which has not yet burst. • Editha, by William Dean Howells, (1349)

18. 200 Quote 6 • The mystery that had bewildered her was solved by the word; and from that moment she rose from grovelling in shame and self-pity, and began to live again in the ideal. • (1359) Howells’ “Editha”

19. 300 Quote 5 • But now, it flashed upon her, if he could do something worthy to have won her—be a hero, her hero—it would be even better than if he had done it before asking her; it would be grander. • 1350 Howells’ “Editha”

20. 300 Quote 6 • But fifteen years ago, on Monday morning the quiet, dusty, shady streets would be full of Negro women with, balanced on their steady, turbaned heads, bundles of clothes tied up in sheets, almost as large as cotton bales…. • (1792) “That Evening Sun” William Faulkner

21. 100 Quote 7 • “Who will do our washing now, Father?” I said. “I’m not a nigger,” Jason said, high and close to father’s head. “You’re worse,” Caddy said, “you are a tattletale. If something was to jump out, you’d be scairder than a nigger.” (1803) Faulkner “That Evening Sun”

22. 200 Quote 7 • Ahm ol ernough to hava gun. Ahm seventeen. Almost a man. • Richard Wright, “The Man Who was Almost A Man”, (1855)

23. 300 Quote 7 • When he reached the top of a ridge he stood straight and proud in the moonlight, looking at Jim Hawkins’ big white house, feeling the gun sagging in his pocket. Lawd, ef Ah had just one mo bullet Ah’d taka shot at tha house. Ah’d like to scare ol man Hawkins jusa little…Jusa enough t let im know Dave Saunders is a man.” (1863).

24. 400 Quote 1 • I remember the very day that I became colored. • Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.” (2084).

25. 400 Quote 2 • A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place—who knows? • (2087)

26. 400 Quote 3 • I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. • Alice Walker, “Everyday Use.” (2106).

27. 400 Quote 4 • When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet. Just like when I’m in church and the spirit of God touches me and I get happy and shout. • (2111)

28. 400 Quote 5 • Look out most for that scorpion, she says, making a big face to scare me again and it works I go—crying—she lets me go—they laugh, the way you must look out for men who have not yet bruised you. • Alberto Rios • “Advice to a First Cousin”

29. 400 Quote 6 • Sex fingers toes in the marketplace near your father’s church in Hamlet, North Carolina— • Michael Harper • “Dear John, Dear Coltrane”