Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 712 pages) |
Contents |
Chronological Contents; Note on the Texts; Further Reading; Introduction; William Ellery Channing, "Likeness to God" (1828); Sampson Reed, "Genius" (1821; published 1849); Sampson Reed, Observations on the Growth of the Mind (1826); Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sermon CXXI (17 July 1831); Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Lord's Supper," Sermon CLXII (9 September 1832); Frederic Henry Hedge, "Coleridge's Literary Character" (March 1833); Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, from "Explanatory Preface," Record of a School (1836); Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836) |
Summary |
The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism provided a springboard for the first distinctly American forays into intellectual culture: religion and religious reform, philosophy, literature, ecology, and spiritualism. This new collection, edited by eminent American literature scholar Joel Myerson, is the first anthology of the period to appear in over fifty years. Transcendentalism: A Read |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 683-695) and index |
Notes |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Transcendentalism (New England) -- Literary collections
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American literature -- 19th century.
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American literature -- New England
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Intellectual life
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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New England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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New England
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Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Myerson, Joel.
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ISBN |
9780198028499 |
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0198028490 |
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9780195122121 |
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0195122127 |
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128076063X |
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9781280760631 |
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