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The New England Transcendentalists: Life of the Mind and of the Spirit (2nd ed.)
by Ellen Hansen

9781932663174

New England Transcendentalists gives readers insight into the idealism and romanticism running through 19th century Transcendentalist philosophy, thought, and spirituality and into the movement’s critique of the materialist and rationalist culture of the time.  This volume introduces the reader to Transcendentalism through excerpts from the writings of Transcendentalist movement members such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman.

ISBN: 978-1-932663-17-4     Publication Date: 2006     Price: 7.95     44 pages, paperback