Title:
The transcendentalists and their world / Robert A. Gross.
ISBN:
9780374279325
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description:
xx, 836 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Part 1. A community in change. Prologue: a new beginning ; A day of good feelings ; Community and conscience -- White village ; Curse of trade ; Husbandmen and manufacturers ; Knowledge is power ; Internal improvements ; Privilige and conspiracy -- Part 2. Transcendentalists and their world. Freedom of mind ; A little democracy ; Philosopher of modern history ; Young men and women of fairest promise ; Man of Concord ; Famine in the churches ; Spirit of reform ; Iron horse ; Walden and beyond.
Summary:
"The eminent and award-winning historian Robert A. Gross presents his long-awaited, immersive journey through Concord in the age of Emerson and Thoreau."-- Provided by publisher.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
on1259295125
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