Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts

by Charles H. Capper, Dean Grodzins, Conrad Edict Wright, et al.

Book Overview

Comprising twenty essays by leading scholars, this insightful collection provides the best recent writing on the Transcendentalists, the New England religious reformers and intellectuals who challenged both spiritual and secular orthodoxies between the 1830s and the 1850s. The volume addresses Transcendentalism from many directions, illuminating the movement more clearly than ever before. The contributions consider aspects of the relationship between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0038AQHME
• ISBN13: 9780934909815
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society
• Length: 639 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"