Does Eddy Share Any Ideas with the American Transcendentalists?
Some notable contemporaries of Eddy’s were the American Romantics, also called the Transcendentalists. These Transcendentalists (Emerson, Thorough, Douglass, Whitman, etc.) shared with Eddy a desire to find truth, to find God, and to become more god-like / divine. Bloom discusses both Emerson and Whitman as practitioners of the American Religion. Read through some web sites on Transcendentalism, such as this one from Virginia Commonwealth University. Or look at a text from either Emerson or Whitman and argue whether you see Eddy as another example of an American Transcendentalist or does she differ from Emerson or Whitman in important ways? Consider “Divinity School Address” for Emerson and “The Noiseless Patient Spider” or selections from Song of Myself for Whitman. Topic C. Eddy and Yankee Can-Do, Know How. Eddy refers to business transactions, inventions, current events, and post-Civil War reconstruction. How does Eddy embody the stereotype of the Yankee pragmatic, and how does her
