The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings
by Lawrence Buell
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Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery. Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of show more Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries. There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century. show lessTags
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- Mary Moody Emerson (1774–1863) was Ralph Waldo Emerson's aunt and first mentor.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If one had reached a "time of life" one had thereby at least heard him lecture; and not a russet leaf fell for me, while I was there, but fell with an Emersonian drop.
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- 818.30809384 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English Middle 19th Century 1830-61
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- PS541 .A667 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature By region North
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