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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967171603321

Titolo

Transcendentalism : a reader / / edited by Joel Myerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-19-028400-5

0-19-772662-3

1-280-76063-X

0-19-802849-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (751 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Altri autori (Persone)

MyersonJoel

Disciplina

810.8/0384

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century

American literature - New England

Transcendentalism (New England)

New England Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-695)and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chronological Contents; Note on the Texts; Further Reading; Introduction; William Ellery Channing, ""Likeness to God"" (1828); Sampson Reed, ""Genius"" (1821;  published 1849); Sampson Reed, Observations on the Growth of the Mind (1826); Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sermon CXXI (17 July 1831); Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""The Lord's Supper,"" Sermon CLXII (9 September 1832); Frederic Henry Hedge, ""Coleridge's Literary Character"" (March 1833); Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, from ""Explanatory Preface,"" Record of a School (1836); Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836)

Andrews Norton, ""Letter to the Editor"" (5 November 1836)George Ripley, from ""Letter to the Editor"" (9 November 1836); A. Bronson Alcott, The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836); A. Bronson Alcott, from Conversations with Children on the Gospels (1836-1837); Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""The American Scholar"" (1837); Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""Introductory"" (6 December 1837) to Human Culture lecture series; Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""Letter to Martin Van Buren"" (14 May 1838); Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""Divinity School Address"" (1838)



Andrews Norton, ""The New School in Literature and Religion"" (27 August 1838)Henry Ware, Jr., The Personality of the Deity (1838); ""Levi Blodgett"" [Theodore Parker], The Previous Question between Mr. Andrews Norton and His Alumni (1840); Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, ""Woman"" from ""The Conversations of Margaret Fuller"" (Spring 1840); Prospectus for The Dial (July 1840); Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""The Editors to the Reader"" (July 1840); Margaret Fuller, ""A Short Essay on Critics"" (July 1840); A. Bronson Alcott, from ""Orphic Sayings"" (July 1840 and other dates)

George Ripley, letter to Emerson (9 November 1840), and Emerson, letter to Ripley (15 December 1840)Sophia Ripley, ""Woman"" (January 1841); Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""Self-Reliance"" (1841); Theodore Parker, A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity (1841); Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""The Transcendentalist"" (23 December 1841); Lidian Jackson Emerson, ""Transcendental Bible"" (1841?); Margaret Fuller, ""The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women"" (July 1843); A. Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane, ""Fruitlands"" (July 1843)

William Henry Channing, ""Introduction"" to the Present (September 1843)Charles Lane and A. Bronson Alcott, ""The Consociate Family Life"" (8 September 1843); Henry David Thoreau, ""A Winter Walk"" (October 1843); Charles Lane, ""Brook Farm"" (January 1844); Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, Constitution (1844); Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, from Constitution, 2d ed. (1844); Margaret Fuller, ""New Year's Day"" (28 December 1844); George Ripley, Prospectus and ""Introductory Notice"" for the Harbinger (14 June 1845)

Margaret Fuller, ""The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women"" (30 September 1845)

Sommario/riassunto

This collection draws together the essential writings of the Transcendentalist group during its most active period, 1836-1844. It includes the major publictions of the Dial, nature writings, and all of Emerson's major essays.