American Transcendentalism

by Philip F. Gura

Book Overview

American Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the American Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their intellectual genealogy to transatlantic religious and philosophical ideas, illustrating how these informed the fierce theological debates that, so often first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809016443
• ISBN13: 9780809016440
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.2"