Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts

by Charles Capper (Editor), Conrad Edick Wright (Editor)

Comprising twenty essays by leading scholars, this insightful collection provides the best recent writing on the Transcendentalists, the New England religious reformers and intellectuals who challenged both spiritual and secular orthodoxies between the 1830s and the 1850s. The volume addresses Transcendentalism from many directions, illuminating the movement more clearly than ever before. The contributions consider aspects of the relationship between the Transcendentalists and their intellectual and social world, assess the movement's cultural legacy, and place Transcendentalism in the context of historical and literary scholarship, past and present.

639 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 1999

Reviews

[Purpleandgreen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has been invaluable in providing me insight with regard to the influence of non-western religion on R.W. Emerson's works. This book is part of the bibliography of my BA thesis as it provided me with a thorough contextual understanding of the 19th century New England transcendentalist movement.

[Dean]

I have an essay in here, "Theodore Parker and the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society: The Reform Church and the Spirituality of Reformers in Boston, 1845-1859."