Transcendentalism: A Reader

by Joel Myerson

Book Overview

The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism provided a springboard for the first distinctly American forays into intellectual culture: religion and religious reform, philosophy, literature, ecology, and spiritualism. This new collection, edited...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195122127
• ISBN13: 9780195122121
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"