The western experiment
Subtitle: New England transcendentalists in the Ohio Valley
By: [by] Elizabeth R. McKinsey.
Series: Essays in history and literature
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Transcendentalism (New England); Ohio River Valley -- Intellectual life
Description: Describes transcendalism as it moves West and settles in the Ohio River Valley where it did not capture the sensibilities of frontier people. Its intellectualism and its ties to nature were at some distance from these hardworking pioneers and it failed to transform them in the nineteenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.