Word: transcendentalist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...magazines. She has made the proper linkages to British Victorianism and German romantic philosophy. She has analyzed the lives and works of 30 women and 30 liberal clergymen (there was a high percentage of literary Unitarians). There is an excellent chapter on the life of Margaret Fuller, the American Transcendentalist who challenged the sentimental female stereotype by participating in the activity and danger of Italy's struggle for independence. Douglas also offers a penetrating chapter in which the works of Herman Melville are seen as bitter social criticisms subtly designed to repudiate the values of the reader...
...women represented, perhaps because women were not in a position to make the kind of political history Fried is concerned with. (Each is written in a genre particular to the times and events it describes.) Samuels Book of Confessions is complemented by the journals of Basil Litchflied Prescott, transcendentalist; on the other hand, Bartholomew Flagg Prescott's contribution comprises a series of dispatches, ostensibly briefing Lincoln on the calibre of his various generals, while Stewart Rantoul os represented by muckraking articles and his correspondence with Teddy Roosevelt...
HOLY HORATIO--The nineteenth century Harvard author who sold more copies of his works than Thoreau, Emerson, Parkman, Lowell, and Henry James combined was not a Transcendentalist. He was a Unitarian named "Holy" Horatio Alger Jr., so called because of his announced intention to follow his father's footsteps in the ministry. His 119 "rags-to-riches" novels--all with nearly the same plot--sold around 250,000,000 copies. No Harvard author to date has sold that many books...
...would only do this to people who find the solidity of the earth (or the floor of MOMA) rather odd and need to be reminded of it by sculptures. The denial of the material in Caro's work, quite as much as its formal precision, appeals to the transcendentalist mind: to a criticism based on the flatness of painting and the open pictoriality of sculpture, on work that "overcomes" its own material essence...
Still, as a descendant of a prominent Massachusetts family that included Emerson's fellow transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, Bucky in 1913 became a fifth-generation Harvard man. Within two years he had been thrown out twice -the second and final time for running off to New York to blow his semester's living expenses on dinner for the entire Ziegfeld chorus line...