Selected Writings of the American Transcendentalists: Second Edition

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George Hochfield
Yale University Press, 01‏/01‏/2004 - 433 من الصفحات

Transcendentalism was the name given to the New England movement of the 1830s and 1840s that brought together Romanticism in literature and social reform in politics. Its partisans argued for the rights of women, the abolition of slavery, and, in some cases, the socialization of labor and equal distribution of profits. They were America’s first avant-garde.
This volume presents substantial selections from the writings of key American Transcendentalists, such as George Ripley, Margaret Fuller, Orestes Brownson, Theodore Parker, and Bronson Alcott. Included are sermons and diary entries, essays on labor, religion, education, and literature, on German metaphysics and Coleridge’s philosophy of mind. Many are expressive of the movement’s over-arching project: to define the innermost meanings of democracy--the nature of man, his place in the world, and his relation to the divine. First published in 1966, the book has been updated and expanded for this edition.

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A Note on the Text
xxix
William Ellery Channing On
45
William Ellery Channing Likeness to
54
Sampson Reed On Genius
67
Sampson Reed Observations on
73
Bronson Alcott Journals
92
James Marsh Preliminary Essay
105
Bronson Alcott The Doctrine
131
Orestes A Brownson The Laboring Classes
254
Theodore Parker The Transient
274
Theodore Parker A Sermon of Slavery
290
R W Emerson and Margaret Fuller
299
John Sullivan Dwight The Religion
310
Frederic Henry Hedge Questionings
324
Christopher Pearse Cranch Glimmerings
330
Theodore Parker Thoughts on Labor
337

Orestes A Brownson Cousins Philosophy
144
George Ripley Martineaus Rationale
157
Orestes A Brownson New Views
164
George Ripley Discourses on
180
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Record
188
Andrews Norton A Discourse on the Latest
203
George Ripley The Latest Form of Infidelity
210
James Freeman Clarke Jones Very
219
Jones Very Shakespeare
228
Jones Very Hamlet
234
Jones Very Poems
240
Orestes A Brownson American Literature
246
R W Emerson and Albert Brisbane
346
R W Emerson On Student Rebellions
355
Samuel Gray Ward Notes on Art
373
George Ripley Letter to R W Emerson
379
Letter from a Minister
385
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Plan of the West
391
Introductory Statement to the Revised
398
Orestes A Brownson Transcendentalism
405
Theodore Parker Theodore Parkers
414
About the Authors
425
Selected Bibliography
432
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George Hochfield is professor emeritus at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

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