Charles Capper

Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts Charles Capper New edition

Marc Notes: Incl. bibl. ref. and index; Conf. papers 1997. Publisher Marketing: 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. Review Citations:

Choice 09/01/2000 pg. 206 (EAN 9780934909761, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Capper, Charles Charles Capper is Professor of History at Boston University. In addition to writing the acclaimed first volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, he is the coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition and the journal Modern Intellectual History. Contributor Bio:  Wright, Conrad Edick Wright is the Ford Editor of Publications at the Massachusetts Historical Society, where he is also the Director of the Center for the Study of New England History.