Transient and Permanent

Charles Capper

ISBN 10: 0934909814 / ISBN 13: 9780934909815

Published by Massachusetts Historical Society, US, 2011

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transient and Permanent
• Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society, US
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0934909814
• ISBN 13: 9780934909815
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1068 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Charles Capper is Professor of History at Boston University. Conrad Edick Wright is the Ford Editor of Publications at the Massachusetts Historical Society.