The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism
Edited by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Laura Dassow Walls, and Joel Myerson
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.
Keywords:
literature,
religion,
politics,
music,
science,
visual arts,
Emerson,
Thoreau,
Whitman,
Fuller,
periodicals,
sermons,
travel writing,
nature writing,
photography,
New England transcendentalism,
Anglo American transcendentalism,
Ancient Greece,
Asia,
Europ
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Apr 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195331035
- Published online:
- Sep 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195331035.001.0001
Editors
Sandra Harbert Petrulionis,
editor
Sandra Harbert Petrulionis is professor of English and American studies at Pennsylvania State University–Altoona. She is the author of To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord (2006) and is the editor of Journal 8: 1854 in the Princeton series of Thoreau's writings. With Laura Dassow Walls, she coedited More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's Walden for the Twenty-first Century (2007). With Noelle Baker, she is currently at work on a digital edition of the Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson.
Laura Dassow Walls,
editor
Laura Dassow Walls is the John H. Bennett Jr. Chair of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, where she teaches American literature with an emphasis on the Transcendentalists and on transatlantic literature and natural science. She has articles in American Quarterly, Configurations, ISLE, and several book collections, and her books include Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (1995); Emerison's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth (2003); and most recently, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (2009). With Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, she coedited More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's Walden for the Twenty-first Century (2007).
Joel Myerson,
editor
Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina
