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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781250859075
- Book Title
- Transcendentalists and Their World
- Publisher
- Picador
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Philosophers, Movements / Transcendentalism, United States / 19th Century, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT)
- Item Weight
- 23.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 880 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250859077
ISBN-13
9781250859075
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8057265455
Product Key Features
Book Title
Transcendentalists and Their World
Number of Pages
880 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Philosophers, Movements / Transcendentalism, United States / 19th Century, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Table Of Content
Part I: A Community in Change 1. A Day of Good Feelings 2. Community and Conscience 3. The White Village 4. The Curse of Trade 5. Husbandmen and Manufacturers 6. Knowledge Is Power 7. Internal Improvements 8. Privilege and Conspiracy 9. Freedom of Mind Part II: Transcendentalists and Their World 10. A Little Democracy 11. The Philosopher of Modern History 12. Young Men and Women of Fairest Promise 13. The Man of Concord 14. Famine in the Churches 15. The Spirit of Reform 16. The Iron Horse 17. Walden and Beyond
Synopsis
From the eminent and award-winning historian Robert A. Gross comes his long-awaited, immersive journey through Concord in the age of Emerson and Thoreau, The Transcendentalists and Their World . One of The Wall Street Journal 's 10 Best Books of 2021 Why Concord? How did a small and seemingly quiet village in the hinterlands of Boston become, by popular reckoning, the birthplace of two revolutions--the American War of Independence that began with shots fired by the local Minutemen, and the American Renaissance of literature and thought that began with the Transcendentalists' challenge to established pieties? In The Transcendentalists and Their World , the distinguished historian Robert A. Gross gives a rich and beautifully detailed account of the town that Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called home. Their Concord, he shows, was primed for revolt, and was hardly a sleepy, bucolic place fit only for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived in an age of transformation. A place of more than two thousand souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, one whose small, ordered society, founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen, was dramatically unsettled by the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy while the town became more tightly integrated with the wider world. These changes posed a challenge to a society built on inherited institutions and involuntary associations as citizens placed a new premium on autonomy and choice. Concord was ripe for Emerson and Thoreau. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a town and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the reaches of the universe for spiritual truths--and took stock of the rapidly changing contours of their surroundings. It shows us familiar literary figures alongside their neighbors--white and Black, devout and blasphemous, and situated at every level of the social order--and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community has been recovered so richly and located so meaningfully within the larger American story., Why Concord? How did a small and seemingly quiet village in the hinterlands of Boston become, by popular reckoning, the birthplace of two revolutions--the American War of Independence that began with shots fired by the local Minutemen, and the American Renaissance of literature and thought that began with the Transcendentalists' challenge to established pieties? In The Transcendentalists and Their World, the distinguished historian Robert A. Gross gives a rich and beautifully detailed account of the town that Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called home. Their Concord, he shows, was primed for revolt, and was hardly a sleepy, bucolic place fit only for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived in an age of transformation. A place of more than two thousand souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, one whose small, ordered society, founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen, was dramatically unsettled by the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy while the town became more tightly integrated with the wider world. These changes posed a challenge to a society built on inherited institutions and involuntary associations as citizens placed a new premium on autonomy and choice. Concord was ripe for Emerson and Thoreau. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a town and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the reaches of the universe for spiritual truths--and took stock of the rapidly changing contours of their surroundings. It shows us familiar literary figures alongside their neighbors--white and Black, devout and blasphemous, and situated at every level of the social order--and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community has been recovered so richly and located so meaningfully within the larger American story.
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