Transient and Permanent
The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts
Published on 30. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-934909-81-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Charlottesville
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1049 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-934909-81-5 (9780934909815)
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Persons
CHARLES CAPPER is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of North Carolina. CONRAD EDICK WRIGHT is Ford Editor of Publications and Director of the Center for the Study of New England History at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Content
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)