Transient and permanent : the transcendentalist movement and its contexts

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Transient and permanent : the transcendentalist movement and its contexts

edited by Charles Capper and Conrad Edick Wright

(Studies in American history and culture, no. 5)

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1999

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780934909761

Description

Comprising 20 essays by leading scholars, this collection provides recent writing on the Transcendentalists, the New England religious reformers and intellectuals who challenged both spiritual and secular orthodoxies between the 1830s and the 1850s.
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: pbk ISBN 9780934909815

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Comprising twenty essays by leading scholars, this insightful collection provides the best recent writing on the Transcendentalists, the New England religious reformers and intellectuals who challenged both spiritual and secular orthodoxies between the 1830s and the 1850s. The volume addresses Transcendentalism from many directions, illuminating the movement more clearly than ever before. The contributions consider aspects of the relationship between the Transcendentalists and their intellectual and social world, assess the movement's cultural legacy, and place Transcendentalism in the context of historical and literary scholarship, past and present.

Table of Contents

Preface (Conrad Edick Wright, Massachusetts Historical Society) Transcendentalism and the Historians 'A Little Beyond': The Problem of the Transcendentalist Movement in American History (Charles Capper, University of North Carolina) Transcendentalism and the New England Religious Tradition 'A Religious Demonstration': The Theological Emergence of New England Transcendentalism (David M. Robinson, Oregon State University) Theodore Parker and the 28th Congregational Society: The Reform Church and the Spirituality of Reformers in Boston, 1845-1859 (Dean Grodzins, Harvard University) Transcendentalism and the Cosmopolitan Discourse Schleiermacher and the Transcendentalists (Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Middletown, Connecticut)

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