Selected Writings of the American Transcendentalists
Subtitle: Second Edition
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780300102819
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Other prose: 19th century; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
Description: This volume presents substantial selections from the writings of key American Transcendentalists, such as George Ripley, Margaret Fuller, Orestes Brownson, Theodore Parker, and Bronson Alcott. Included are sermons and diary entries, essays on labor, religion, education, and literature, on German metaphusics and Coleridge's philosophyof mind. Many are expressive of the movement's overarching project: to define the innermost meanings of democracy--the nature of man, his place in the world, and his relation to the divine. First published in 1966, this edition has been updated and expanded.