Term Paper - Transcendentalist View Of Bartleby's Actions

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts.

The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations.

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist."

This essay is provides a transcendentalist view Of Bartleby's Actions.

Essay Text (84 words of 651):

"...The Transcendentalists and the Dark Romantics were the two major literary groups of America's literary coming of age. The transcendentalists believed in transcending everyday, physical human experiences and objects, in order to determine the reality of God, the universe, and the self. Transcendentalists, led by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, believed in the good of man, and held a very optimistic view of the world and mankind. This directly clashed with the Dark Romantics; they felt that everything had a darker, more ..."

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