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The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings

by Lawrence Buell

A broad anthology of American Transcendentalist thought

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A broad anthology of American Transcendentalist thought

Edited by Lawrence Buell, this anthology brings together writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and other figures associated with Transcendentalism, alongside later reflections on the movement by writers including Charles Dickens, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The selections place the movement in the context of mid-nineteenth-century debates about religion, literature, nature, class, women’s roles, and slavery. Its scope makes the volume useful for tracing how individual belief and calls for collective social action appeared across a range of subjects and contributors.

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  • Readers seeking a substantial collection of primary writings by American Transcendentalists.
  • Readers studying nineteenth-century U.S. intellectual, religious, or literary history.
  • Readers interested in historical writing about social reform, class, women’s roles, and slavery.

Themes

TranscendentalismIndividual divinity and collective social actionReligion, literature, and natureClass, women’s roles, and slavery

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Book overview

Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery.
Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries. There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century.
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