Selected Writings of the American Transcendentalists

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030010281X
• ISBN13: 9780300102819
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 433 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.7"