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...various sorts, and most of all to college and university libraries, because that’s basically the biggest single customer base for big doorstop reference works of this kind,” says Lawrence Buell, Professor of American Literature, who contributed an entry on Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist Movement. Citing the price as an investment the individual customer would not perhaps make, he explains, “I’m not trying to sound critical of what the book’s attempting here, by any means. There’s definitely a market in the world...
...talked about the connection to nature portrayed in writing. “Nature writing encompasses robust narrative and well-grounded observations from the science of the natural world,” Elder said. He said that 20th century nature writing—as well as the 19th-Century Transcendentalist movement’s emphasis on the connection between people and the environment—had greatly inspired him. “Most people are not interested in nature. We’re more interested in other people,” Peterson, the moderator, said. “The trick...
...complex history of American Transcendentalism. Starting with the Transcendentalists’ European influences, he traces the shifting ideas and proponents of the movement. Rather than try to reduce the multi-faceted phenomenon to one hardened definition, Gura acknowledges the subtleties of the movement and allows the Transcendentalists to speak for themselves. Gura is at his most dynamic when he relates specific philosophical debates, such as the substantial discourse that surrounded Emerson’s speech to the graduating class of Harvard’s Divinity School on July 15, 1838. As Gura incisively observes, “Emerson?...
...memoir, Schlesinger wrote that he grew bored by his junior year, only drawn out of his doldrums by his History and Literature thesis on the New England Transcendentalist Orestes A. Brownson...
...Schlesinger writes that he grew bored by his junior year, only drawn out of his doldrums by his History and Literature thesis on the New England Transcendentalist Orestes A. Brownson...