Intellectual ferment and social turmoil characterized America in the mid-19th century. Transcendentalism, an intentionally nebulous philosophy that asserted the primacy of individual consciousness ...

Transcendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology in the name of nature. But the transcendentalist movement can actually be seen as ...

John A. Buehrens’s new book, “Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice” (Beacon) focuses less on the literature and more on the ...

A number of critical works have drawn attention to the fundamental impact of Johann Gottfried Herder's and Friedrich Schleiermacher's theological thinking on the formation of the transcendentalist ...

In Transcendentalism in New England by Octavius Brooks Frothingham, readers are immersed in a comprehensive study of the Transcendentalist movement that emerged in 19th century New England.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Christie Jackson, senior curator of the Trustees of Reservations gave a tour of the Old Manse in Concord, MA. She spoke about Ralph Waldo Emerson and ...

It is a remarkable fact that American transcendentalism’s two best-known authors—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—lived within walking distance in the same small village of 2,000 souls.

LEESBURG — Imagine walking in the footsteps of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and other transcendentalist authors. That’s what Melinda Simmons, professor of humanities ...

For all the quaint New England charm exuded by her classic and beloved novel, “Little Women,” Louisa May Alcott was a more complicated literary figure than most give her credit for. Raised as a ...