The Oxford handbook of transcendentalism

The Oxford handbook of transcendentalism / edited by Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Laura Dassow Walls.

"This volume includes fifty original essays from a group of renowned scholars as well as a compact chronology and specialized bibliographies. It offers a rich, authoritative, interdisciplinary account, providing scholars with the definitive resource on this seminal movement in American culture....

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Other Authors: Myerson, Joel, Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert, 1959-, Walls, Laura Dassow
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Transcendentalism (New England)
Transcendentalism in literature.
New England > Intellectual life > 19th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Greek and Roman classics / K.P. Van Anglen
  • Enlightenment and Scottish common sense philosophy / Robin Grey
  • Asian influences / Alan Hodder
  • Puritanism / Frank Shuffelton
  • Unitarianism / Dean Grodzins
  • World revolutions / Michael Ziser
  • Romanticism / Barbara L. Packer
  • Nineteenth-century print culture / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
  • Religion / Albert J. von Frank
  • Politics and economics / Len Gougeon
  • Education / Wesley T. Mott
  • Environmentalist thought and action / Lance Newman
  • Manifest destiny and the question of the moral absolute / Lawrence Buell
  • Native American rights / Joshua David Bellin
  • Antislavery reform / Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
  • Woman's rights and feminism / Phyllis Cole
  • Health and the body / Mary Lamb Shelden
  • Transcendentalist communities / Sterling F. Delano
  • Transcendental poetics : Emerson, Higginson, and the rise of Whitman and Dickinson / Ed Folsom
  • Journals / Robert Sattelmeyer
  • Letter writing / Robert N. Hudspeth
  • Sermons / Susan L. Roberson
  • Lectures and the Lyceum movement / Kent P. Ljungquist
  • Conversations / Noelle A. Baker
  • Transcendentalist periodicals / Todd H. Richardson
  • The Dial / Susan Belasco
  • Literary criticism / Jeffrey Steele
  • Travel literature / Barbara L. Packer
  • Nature writing / Philip F. Gura
  • Biography, autobiography, and reminiscence / Robert D. Habich
  • The visual arts / Albert J. von Frank
  • Photography / Sean Ross Meehan
  • Architecture / W. Barksdale Maynard
  • Music / Ora Frishberg Saloman
  • Concord / Ronald A. Bosco
  • Boston and beyond / Robert J. Scholnick
  • Global transcendentalism / Laura Dassow Walls
  • Families and friendships / Elizabeth Addison
  • Transcendental virtue / Philip Cafaro
  • The Cavellian turn / Lawrence F. Rhu
  • Aesthetics / Eric G. Wilson
  • Science and technology / Laura Dassow Walls
  • Evolutionary theory / William Rossi
  • Naysayers : Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville / Richard Kopley
  • The Free Religion movement / David M. Robinson
  • The life and legacy of civil disobedience / Linck Johnson
  • Nature writing and environmental activism / Robert E. Burkholder
  • Walden : pilgrimages and iconographies / Leslie Perrin Wilson
  • Twentieth-century American poetry / Saundra Morris
  • The electronic age / Amy E. Earhart.

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