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Title Transcendentalism : a reader / [edited by] Joel Myerson
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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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
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Subject Transcendentalism (New England) -- Literary collections
American literature -- 19th century.
American literature -- New England
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
Intellectual life
Transcendentalism (New England)
SUBJECT New England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject New England
Genre/Form Literary collections
Form Electronic book
Author Myerson, Joel.
ISBN 9780198028499
0198028490
9780195122121
0195122127
128076063X
9781280760631