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Originally Posted by Abishai100
Henry David Thoreau's naturalism-experimentation book, "Walden" [1854] is a representation of the literary movement known as the American Romantic period.
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Walden is an exposition in naturalism mysticism and rugged transcendentalism.
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Interesting essay. I see what mean about many of these influences embedded in the horror genre and comic books.
I just want to point out (in reaction to your oft cornucopic mix of "isms")...
Technically, Naturism is the opposite of mysticism, and not a friend to romanticism and Transcendentalism. Strictly speaking naturalism means nothing exists except the natural (physical) world... at the time meaning only things concrete and physically testable -- that nothing else exists, and should not be spoken of; largely inspired by Darwinism. Really, Transcendentalists rebelled against that, & other, restraints.
Emerson wrote, "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."
On a side note, the study of the physical world, and it's use in explaining existence & it's use in literature/arts has forever been embraced by those who also embrace the universe of things that may yet be untestable in laboratory settings or so-called objectively observed.