The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

by Myerson, Joel; Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert; Walls, Laura Dassow

• ISBN13: 9780195331035
• ISBN10: 0195331036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalismoffers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.

Author Biography

Joel Myerson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of South Carolina. An authority on transcendentalism and textual and bibliographical studies, Professor Myerson has written, edited, co-authored, or co-edited some fifty books.
Laura Walls is John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. Her most recent book is Passage to Cosmos: Humboldt's American Horizons (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Sandra Harbert Petrulionis is Professor of English and American Studies at Penn State--Altoona.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Transcendental Contexts

Transcendentalism and Greek and Roman Classics

Enlightenment and Scottish Common Sense Philosophy

Asian Influences

Puritanism and Transcendentalism

Unitarianism

Transcendentalism and World Revolutions

British and Continental Romanticism

Nineteenth-Century Print Culture

Transcendentalism as a Social Movement

Transcendentalism and Religion

Transcendental Politics and Economics

Education

Environmentalist Thought and Action

Transcendentalism, Manifest Destiny, and the Question of the Moral Absolute

Transcendentalism and Native American Rights

Transcendentalism and Antislavery

Women's Rights and Feminism

Transcendentalism, Health, and the Body

Transcendentalist Communities

Transcendentalism as a Literary Movement

Transcendental Poetics: Emerson, Higginson, and the Rise of Whitman and Dickinson

Transcendentalism and the Journal

Transcendental Letter-writing

Transcendentalism and Sermons

Lectures and the Lyceum Movement

Transcendentalism and Conversations

Transcendentalist Periodicals

The Dial

Literary Criticism

Transcendentalist Travel Literature

Nature Writing

Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscence

Transcendentalism and the Other Arts

Transcendentalism and the Visual Arts

Photography

Architecture

Transcendentalism and Music

Varieties of Transcendental Experience

Concord

Transcendentalism in Boston and Beyond

Global Transcendentalism

Families and Friendships at the Height of the Transcendental Movement

Transcendental Virtue

The Cavellian Turn in American Transcendental Thinking

Transcendental Aesthetics

Science and Technology

Transcendentalism and Evolutionary Theory

Transcendentalism and Its Nay-Sayers: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville

Transcendental Afterlives

The Free Religion Movement

The Life and Legacy of Civil Disobedience

Nature Writing and Environmental Activism

Walden: Pilgrimages and Iconographies

Transcendentalism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry

The Electronic Age

Appendices

Chronology

Bibliographies

Index

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