Title: The New England Milton
Subtitle: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic
Description: *The New England Milton* concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Trancendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by both groups was a function of their response as members of the New England elite to older and broader socio-political tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization.
Subjects: American literature, Appreciation, English influences, History and criticism, Influence, Intellectual life, Politics and literature, American literature, history and criticism, New england, intellectual life, Appréciation, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Littérature anglaise, Influence américaine, Politique et littérature, Vie intellectuelle, Art appreciation, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Rezeption, Geschichte 1800-1900, Geschichte (1780-1860), Milton, john, 1608-1674
Places: New England
People: John Milton (1608-1674), Emerson, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), William Ellery Channing, Margaret Fuller
Time periods: 1820-1860