Transient and Permanent : The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts

Charles Capper

ISBN 10: 0934909814 / ISBN 13: 9780934909815

Published by University Press Of Virginia, 2011

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The essays in this collection capture New England's Transcendentalists in all their complexity. As authors, philosophers, theologians, and artists the circle's adherents challenged their era's spiritual and secular orthodoxies between the 1830s and the 1850s. As critics and reformers they questioned the structure of their society and pressed for change. Contributions to this volume discuss the relationship between Transcendentalism and New England's religious mainstream, the movement and intellectual currents in the nineteenth century, Transcendentalist critiques of society and proposals for reform, the circle's cultural legacy, and its treatment by historians and literary critics.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transient and Permanent : The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts
• Publisher: University Press Of Virginia
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0934909814
• ISBN 13: 9780934909815
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 38D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 38 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1049 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.