The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings

Name: The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 8601410044978

Henry David Thoreau

10/01/2006
Random House Publishing Group

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Couverture de The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings par Henry David Thoreau

Résumé

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.