Title: Transcendentalism in New England : a history /
Authors: Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, 1822-1895.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam,
Year: 1876
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Criticism and interpretation.; Transcendentalism (New England)
Abstract: Transcendentalism was an important intellectual movement in America, influencing ideas and institutions, swaying politicians, inspiring philanthropists, and creating reformers. Frothingham's history of transcendentalism relates how it shaped the country's national mind and impacted its intellectual and moral character.
Contents: Beginnings in Germany -- Transcendentalism in Germany: Kant, Jacobi, Fichte, etc. -- Theology and literature: Schleiermacher, Goethe, Richter, etc. -- Trascendentalism in France: Cousin, Constant, Jouffroy, etc. -- Transcendentalism in England: Coleridge, Carlyle, Wordsworth -- Transcendentalism in New England -- Practical tendencies -- Religious tendencies -- The seer: Emerson -- The mystic: Alcott -- The critic: Margaret Fuller -- The preacher: Theodore Parker -- The man of letters: George Ripley -- Minor prophets -- Literature.