Selected Writings of the American Transcendentalists / Martha F. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Martha F., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Transcendentalism was the name given to the New England movement of the 1830s and 1840s that brought together Romanticism in literature and social reform in politics. Its partisans argued for the rights of women, the abolition of slavery, and, in some cases, the socialization of labor and equal distribution of profits. They were America's first avant-garde.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 metaphysics and Coleridge's philosophy of mind. Many are expressive of the movement's over-arching 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, the book has been updated and expanded for this edition.

Contents:

Selected Writings of the American Transcendentalists

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

A Note on the Text

Part 1. The Vanguard

Unitarian Christianity (1819)

On the Evidences of Revealed Religion (1821)

Likeness to God (1828)

On Genius (1821)

Observations on the Growth of the Mind (1826)

Journals (1826-1838)

Preliminary Essay to Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (1829)

On the Difference in Kind of Reason and the Understanding (1825)

Coleridge's Literary Character-German Metaphysics

Part 2. The New School

The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836)

Cousin's Philosophy (1836)

Martineau's Rationale (1836)

New Views of Christianityy Society, and the Church (1836)

Discourses on the Philosophy of Religion (1836)

Record of a School (1836)

A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity (1839)

The Latest Form of Infidelity Examined (1839)

A Third Letter to Mr. Andrews Norton (1840)

Jones Very (1839)

Epic Poetry (1839)

Shakespeare (1839)

Hamlet (1839)

Poems (1839)

American Literature (1840)

The Laboring Classes (1840)

The Transient and Permanent in Christianity (1841)

A Sermon of Slavery

Part 3. The Voice of the Dial

The Editors to the Reader (1840)

A Short Essay on Critics (1840)

The Religion of Beauty (1840)

Orphic Sayings (1840)

Questionings (1841)

German Literature (1841)

Glimmerings (1841)

A Dialogue: Poet, Critic (1841)

Thoughts on Labor (1841)

Christ's Idea of Society (1841)

Fourierism and the Socialists (1842)

On Student Rebellions at Harvard (1842)

Anacreon (1843)

The Great Lawsuit: Man vs. Men, Woman vs. Women (1843)

Notes on Art and Architecture (1843)

Part 4. The Brook Farm Experiment

Letter to R. W. Emerson (1840)

Reply to George Ripley

Letter from a Minister (1843)

Reply to an Inquiry

Letter on Association

Plan of the West Roxbury Community (1841)

Introductory Statement to the Revised Constitution of Brook Farm (1844)

Part 5. Full Circle

Transcendentalism (1846)

Theodore Parker's Experience as a Minister (1859)

About the Authors

Selected Bibliography

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780300145908

030014590X

OCLC:

1024006975