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Author Gura, Philip F., 1950-

Title American transcendentalism : a history / Philip F. Gura.

Imprint New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  141.3 G96a 2007    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description xv, 365 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-343) and index.
Contents Introduction: locating the "like-minded" -- Searching the scriptures -- Reinvigorating a faith -- Transcendentalism emergent -- Religious combustion -- Centripetal forces and centrifugal motion -- Heaven on earth -- Varieties of transcendentalism -- Self and society -- The inward turn -- Free religion and the dream of a common humanity -- Toward the genteel tradition.
Summary A comprehensive history of American transcendentalism which originated with a number of nineteenth-century intellectuals including Ralph Waldo Emerson, and examines their philosophical and religious roots in Europe and opposition to slavery.
Subject Transcendentalism (New England)
Transcendentalism (New England) (OCoLC)fst01154551
ISBN 9780809034772 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0809034778 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0809016443
9780809016440

 
    
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