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 by eminent American literature scholar Joel Myerson, is the first anthology of the period to appear in over fifty years. Transcendentalism: A Reader draws together in their entirety the essential writings of the Transcendentalist group during its most active period, 1836-1844. It includes the major publications of the Dial, the writings on democratic and social reform, the early poetry, nature writings, and all of Emerson's major essays, as well as an informative introduction and annotations by Myerson.
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"This magnificent edition of the writings of the Transcendentalists introduces a consequential strain of American thinking to new readers. The works have been sensibly selected, and because the original spelling and punctuation have been preserved, the dazzling originality of thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Peabody, and Margaret Fuller rises from the pages with the force and agility of a rousing sermon....Myerson deftly thumbnails each author's argument, and in an inspired introduction, reminds us that the seeds of much of America's greatest potential--the defiant belief in individual civil rights, justice and equality--can be found by reading the Transcendentalists in their own words. This indispensable volume is highly recommended."--Library Journal
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Joel Myerson is Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the editor of A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson (Oxford, 1999).
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Brook Farm, New England, Margaret Fuller, New York, New Testament, Ralph Waldo Emerson, United States, George Ripley, Theodore Parker, Andrews Norton, Bronson Alcott, Jesus Christ, Old Testament, James Munroe, Miss Fuller, Son of God, Waldo Tmerson, Holy Spirit, West Roxbury, Anne Hutchinson, James Freeman Clarke, Joel Myerson, Christian Examiner, John Brown, Man Thinking New!
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- Studies in the American Renaissance by Joel Myerson on 8 pages
- The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson (6 Volume Set) (Vol. 6) by Ralph L. Rusk on 6 pages
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Oxford Authors) by Ralph Waldo Emerson on 5 pages
- Bibliography of American Literature, Volume 1: Henry Adams to Donn Byrne (Bibliography of American Literature Seri) by Jacob Blanck on 4 pages
- Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Norton Critical Editions) by Margaret Fuller on 4 pages
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- Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance by Kenneth S. Sacks on 6 pages
- Emerson by Lawrence Buell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism by David M. Robinson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America by Anne E. Boyd in Back Matter
- Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation (New Americanists) by Jay Grossman in Back Matter
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