The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism (Oxford Handbooks)

## Abstract The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural impact of this movement. The volume contains over fifty chapters that cover Transcendentalism's relationship not only to literature, but also to religion, politics, music, science, and the visual arts. The book features chapters on an eclectic group of texts: in addition to examining standard works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Fuller, the volume considers a variety of forms, including periodicals, sermons, travel writing, nature writing, and photography. The book also opens up the discussion of the movement beyond the New England-centered, Anglo American world and explores Transcendentalism's relationship to the worlds of Ancient Greece, Asia, and Europe and considers the movement's relationship to American Indians. This Volume Includes Fifty Original Essays From A Group Of Renowned Scholars As Well As A Compact Chronology And Specialized Bibliographies. It Offers A Rich, Authoritative, Interdisciplinary Account, Providing Scholars With The Definitive Resource On This Seminal Movement In American Culture.--from The Dust Jacket. Greek And Roman Classics / K.p. Van Anglen -- Enlightenment And Scottish Common Sense Philosophy / Robin Grey -- Asian Influences / Alan Hodder -- Puritanism / Frank Shuffelton -- Unitarianism / Dean Grodzins -- World Revolutions / Michael Ziser -- Romanticism / Barbara L. Packer -- Nineteenth-century Print Culture / Ronald J. Zboray And Mary Saracino Zboray -- Religion / Albert J. Von Frank -- Politics And Economics / Len Gougeon -- Education / Wesley T. Mott -- Environmentalist Thought And Action / Lance Newman -- Manifest Destiny And The Question Of The Moral Absolute / Lawrence Buell -- Native American Rights / Joshua David Bellin -- Antislavery Reform / Sandra Harbert Petrulionis -- Woman's Rights And Feminism / Phyllis Cole -- Health And The Body / Mary Lamb Shelden -- Transcendentalist Communities / Sterling F. Delano -- Transcendental Poetics : Emerson, Higginson, And The Rise Of Whitman And Dickinson / Ed Folsom -- Journals / Robert Sattelmeyer --^ Letter Writing / Robert N. Hudspeth -- Sermons / Susan L. Roberson -- Lectures And The Lyceum Movement / Kent P. Ljungquist -- Conversations / Noelle A. Baker -- Transcendentalist Periodicals / Todd H. Richardson -- The Dial / Susan Belasco -- Literary Criticism / Jeffrey Steele -- Travel Literature / Barbara L. Packer -- Nature Writing / Philip F. Gura -- Biography, Autobiography, And Reminiscence / Robert D. Habich -- The Visual Arts / Albert J. Von Frank -- Photography / Sean Ross Meehan -- Architecture / W. Barksdale Maynard -- Music / Ora Frishberg Saloman -- Concord / Ronald A. Bosco -- Boston And Beyond / Robert J. Scholnick -- Global Transcendentalism / Laura Dassow Walls -- Families And Friendships / Elizabeth Addison -- Transcendental Virtue / Philip Cafaro -- The Cavellian Turn / Lawrence F. Rhu -- Aesthetics / Eric G. Wilson -- Science And Technology / Laura Dassow Walls -- Evolutionary Theory / William Rossi -- Naysayers : Poe, Hawthorne, And Melville / Richard Kopley --^ The Free Religion Movement / David M. Robinson -- The Life And Legacy Of Civil Disobedience / Linck Johnson -- Nature Writing And Environmental Activism / Robert E. Burkholder -- Walden : Pilgrimages And Iconographies / Leslie Perrin Wilson -- Twentieth-century American Poetry / Saundra Morris -- The Electronic Age / Amy E. Earhart. Edited By Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Laura Dassow Walls. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural impact of Transcendentalism. The volume contains over fifty chapters that cover Transcendentalism's relationship not only to literature, but also to religion, politics, music, science, and the visual arts. The book features chapters on an eclectic group of texts: in addition to examining standard works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Fuller, the volume considers a variety of forms, including periodicals, sermons, travel writing, nature writing, and photography. The book also opens up the discussion of the movement beyond the New England-centered, Anglo American world and explores Transcendentalism's relationship to the worlds of Ancient Greece, Asia, and Europe and considers the movement's relationship to American Indians. -- Publisher description 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. This handbook offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture science, and politics