An insightful collection of the best recent writing on Transcendentalists.
Charles Capper is Professor of History at Boston University Conrad Edick Wright is the Ford Editor of Publications at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Preface
ix
Conrad Edick Wright
Acknowledgments
xv
Transcendentalism and the Historians
``A Little Beyond'': The Problem of the Transcendentalist Movement in American History
3
(46)
Charles Capper
Transcendentalism and the New England Religious Tradition
``A Religious Demonstration'': The Theological Emergence of New England Transcendentalism
49
(24)
David M. Robinson
Theodore Parker and the 28th Congregational Society: The Reform Church and the Spirituality of Reformers in Boston, 1845-1859
73
(48)
Dean Grodzins
Transcendentalism and the Cosmopolitan Discourse
Schleiermacher and the Transcendentalists
121
(27)
Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
Emerson and the Terrible Tabulations of the French
148
(20)
Barbara Packer
English Nature, New York Nature, and Walden's New England Nature
168
(22)
Nina Baym
Concord Orientalism, Thoreauvian Autobiography, and the Artist of Kouroo
190
(39)
Alan D. Hodder
Transcendentalism and Society
Transcendentalism and the Spirit of Capitalism
229
(22)
John Patrick Diggins
The Celestial Village: Transcendentalism and Tourism in Concord
251
(31)
Robert A. Gross
``A Chaos-Deep Soil'': Emerson, Thoreau, and Popular Literature
282
(28)
David S. Reynolds
Transcendentalism in Print: Production, Dissemination, and Common Reception
310
(75)
Ronald J. Zboray
Mary Saracino Zboray
Transcendentalism and American Reform
Mrs. Brackett's Verdict: Magic and Means in Transcendental Antislavery Work
385
(23)
Albert J. Von Frank
Woman Questions: Emerson, Fuller, and New England Reform
408
(39)
Phyllis Cole
Brook Farm, Fourierism, and the Nationalist Dilemma in American Utopianism
447
(24)
Carl J. Guarneri
Beyond Transcendentalism: The Radical Individualism of William B. Greene
471
(28)
Philip F. Gura
Transcendentalism's Cultural Legacy
``Our National Glory'': Emerson in American Culture, 1865-1882
499
(28)
Richard F. Teichgraeber III
Transcendentalism from the Margins: The Experience of Caroline Healey Dall
527
(21)
Helen R. Deese
Christopher Pearse Cranch: Painter of Transcendentalism
548
(26)
Nancy Stula
Later Manifestations of Concord: Charles Ives and the Transcendentalist Tradition
574
(31)
Michael Broyles
Denise Von Glahn
Transcendentalism and the Critics
Transcendentalist Literary Legacies
605
(16)
Lawrence Buell
Contributors
621
(2)
Index
623
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