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A History
by Philip F Gura
American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the America Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their intellectual genealogy to transatlantic religious and philosophical ideas, illustrating how these informed the fierce local theological debates that, so often first in Massachusetts and eventually throughout America, gave rise to practical, personal, and quixotic attempts to improve, even perfect the world.
"Starred Review. Gura has written possibly the best single volume on the Transcendentalists .... Gura's fresh, penetrating analysis will reshapes our understanding American of intellectual history and the 19th century." - Publishers Weekly.
"Philip Gura has given us the most comprehensive and concise overview of Transcendentalism to appear in fifty years. By carefully re-historicizing the movement, in all its diversity, he provides the term ‘Transcendentalistism’ with much needed definition. An important book on a subject indispensable for study of the American mind." - John McWilliams, Professor, Middlebury College.
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