Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice

by John Buehrens

Book Overview

A dramatic retelling of the story of the Transcendentalists, revealing them not as isolated authors but as a community of social activists who shaped progressive American values.

Conflagration illuminates the connections between key members of the Transcendentalist circle--including James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Healey Dall, Elizabeth Stanton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller--who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080702404X
• ISBN13: 9780807024041
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"