The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

by Joel Myerson (Editor), Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (Editor), Laura Dassow Walls (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199887071
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/16/2010
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

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 Dassow Walls is John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. Her most recent book is The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Sandra Harbert Petrulionis is Professor of English and American Studies at Penn State--Altoona. She is the author of To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord (Cornell, 2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Transcendental Contexts 1. Transcendentalism and Greek and Roman Classics K. P. Van Anglen 2. Enlightenment and Scottish Common Sense Philosophy Robin Grey 3. Asian Influences Alan Hodder 4. Puritanism and Transcendentalism Frank Shuffelton 5. Unitarianism Dean Grodzins 6. Transcendentalism and World Revolutions Michael Ziser 7. British and Continental Romanticism Barbara L. Packer 8. Nineteenth-Century Print Culture Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray 2. Transcendentalism as a Social Movement 9. Transcendentalism and Religion Albert J. Von Frank 10. Transcendental Politics and Economics Len Gougeon 11. Education Wesley T. Mott 12. Environmentalist Thought and Action Lance Newman 13. Transcendentalism, Manifest Destiny, and the Question of the Moral Absolute Lawrence Buell 14. Transcendentalism and Native American Rights Joshua David Bellin 15. Transcendentalism and Antislavery Sandra Harbert Petrulionis 16. Women's Rights and Feminism Phyllis Cole 17. Transcendentalism, Health, and the Body Mary Lamb Shelden 18. Transcendentalist Communities Sterling F. Delano 3. Transcendentalism as a Literary Movement 19. Transcendental Poetics: Emerson, Higginson, and the Rise of Whitman and Dickinson Ed Folsom 20. Transcendentalism and the Journal Robert Sattelmeyer 21. Transcendental Letter-writing Robert N. Hudspeth 22. Transcendentalism and Sermons Susan L. Roberson 23. Lectures and the Lyceum Movement Kent P. Ljungquist 24. Transcendentalism and Conversations Noelle A. Baker 25. Transcendentalist Periodicals Todd H. Richardson 26. The Dial Susan Belasco 27. Literary Criticism Jeffrey Steele 28. Transcendentalist Travel Literature Barbara L. Packer 29. Nature Writing Philip F. Gura 30. Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscence Robert D. Habich 4. Transcendentalism and the Other Arts 31. Transcendentalism and the Visual Arts Albert J. Von Frank 32. Photography Sean Ross Meehan 33. Architecture W. Barksdale Maynard 34. Transcendentalism and Music Ora Frishberg Saloman 5. Varieties of Transcendental Experience 35. Concord Ronald A. Bosco 36. Transcendentalism in Boston and Beyond Robert J. Scholnick 37. Global Transcendentalism Laura Dassow Walls 38. Families and Friendships at the Height of the Transcendental Movement Elizabeth Addison 39. Transcendental Virtue Philip Cafaro 40. The Cavellian Turn in American Transcendental Thinking Lawrence F. Rhu 41. Transcendental Aesthetics Eric G. Wilson 42. Science and Technology Laura Dassow Walls 43. Transcendentalism and Evolutionary Theory William Rossi 44. Transcendentalism and Its Nay-Sayers: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville Richard Kopley 6. Transcendental Afterlives 45. The Free Religion Movement David M. Robinson 46. The Life and Legacy of “Civil Disobedience” Linck Johnson 47. Nature Writing and Environmental Activism Robert E. Burkholder 48. Walden: Pilgrimages and Iconographies Leslie Perrin Wilson 49. Transcendentalism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry Saundra Morris 50. The Electronic Age Amy E. Earhart Appendices Chronology Joel Myerson Bibliographies Joel Myerson Index