Barbour, B. M. Introduction.--Bowers, D. Democratic vistas.--Carpenter, F. I. Transcendentalism.--Hochfield, G. An introduction to transcendentalism.--Tanner, T ...
Transcendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology in the name of nature. But the transcendentalist movement can actually be seen as ...
On Thursday, August 31, 1837, shortly after noon, 215 members of Harvard University’s prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society ...
It is a remarkable fact that American transcendentalism’s two best-known authors—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—lived within walking distance in the same small village of 2,000 souls.
Walls has researched the intersections of literature and science in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Alexander von Humboldt and related authors. She specializes in American ...
THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS AND THEIR WORLD. By Robert A. Gross. FSG. 864 pages. $40. Twenty-first century visitors to Concord, Mass., will be pleased to discover that it still retains much of its ...
This course introduces students to the tradition of American environmental literature dating from Transcendentalism through realist and experimental contemporary literary texts. Students will study ...
Like art, music and literature, works of scholarship matter most when they trouble our minds and spirits right now. Even those perennial perplexities -- about love and religion and the proper ...