Transcendentalist hermeneutics : institutional authority and the higher criticism of the Bible / Richard A. Grusin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grusin, Richard A.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Religion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Religion.

Thoreau, Henry David.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--New England--History--19th century.

Bible.

Transcendentalism (New England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson's resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed to the "accoutrements of society and civilization" and expresses a Transcendentalist antipathy toward all institutionalized forms of religious observance.In the ongoing revision of American literary history, this traditional reading of the supposed anti-institutionalism of the Transcendenta

Contents:

Emerson's Resignation from the Ministry

The Divinity School "Address" Controversy

Thoreau's Mythological Interpretation Seeing through "The Mist of Prejudice"

The Two Theodore Parkers: Interpretation, Intuition, and Maternal Authority.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-185) and index.

ISBN:

9786613023650

9781283023658

1283023652

9780822382829

0822382822

OCLC:

191222448