What connects any 3 different literature periods, such as Romanticism, Naturalism, Transcendentalism,Classicism, Realism?To write an essay with a...

I think that one could make the argument that emotions
play a linking role in expressing the relationship between Romanticism,
Transcendentalism, and Naturalism.  Emotions and their reverence a play a major role in
Romanticism, a movement that sought to place emotional understanding into a frame of
reference that helps to guide human consciousness.  Transcendentalism is very similar in
this light in its praising of emotions, but also seeks to bring emotions into a way that
society is structured.  Transcendentalism desires to bring emotional understanding into
how individuals see themselves in the social setting.  The notions of praising
individuality, deriding conformity, and driving the idea that the individual can and
should separate themselves from a society that goes against their own nature is a part
of Transcendental thought arising from individuality.  Naturalism's placing of the
individual into a pure state of nature helps to reveal how emotions are part of the
natural setting.  Naturalism's exploration of human emotions is done so through the
understanding that the state of nature is one where emotions are a fitting component and
to understand individuals within this paradigm is to also understand their emotional
frame of reference.