What is the name of the 19th-century literary and philosophical movement centred in New England, emphasising the inherent goodness of people and nature, with key figures Emerson and Thoreau?

• A Romanticism
• B Realism
• C Transcendentalism ✓
• D Pragmatism

Transcendentalism emerged in the 1830s as a reaction against intellectualism and religious orthodoxy, holding that individuals could transcend sensory experience through intuition.