Biographical dictionary of transcendentalism
By: edited by Wesley T. Mott.
Contributors: Mott, Wesley T.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Transcendentalists (New England) -- Biography -- Dictionaries.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New England -- Dictionaries.; New England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Dictionaries.
Description: This volume is a comprehensive guide to the major and minor figures who shaped Transcendentalism in New England, particularly between 1830 and the Civil War. Included are entries for some two hundred writers, philosophers, and theologians who fostered the movement or responded to it in significant ways. While most of the entries are for American thinkers, international figures who advanced Transcendentalism in New England and who were alive until at least 1830 are also covered. Entries relate the person to Transcendentalism, and each includes bibliographical references. A short bibliographical essay identifies the most important general biographical sources on American Transcendentalists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-287) and index.