02923cam a2200313 i 4500 516895513 TxAuBib 20211214120000.0 210629s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021025273 9780374279325 HRD 40.00 0374279322 HRD 40.00 TxAuBib rda Gross, Robert A., 1945- The transcendentalists and their world [BOOK] / Robert A. Gross. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. xx, 836 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-787) and index. Part 1. A community in change. Prologue: a new beginning ; A day of good feelings ; Community and conscience -- The white village ; The 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 ; The philosopher of modern history ; Young men and women of fairest promise ; The man of Concord ; Famine in the churches ; The spirit of reform ; The iron horse ; Walden and beyond. The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through the 1840s was no pastoral place fit for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived through a transformative epoch of American life. A place of two thousand–plus souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, whose small, ordered society founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen was dramatically unsettled through the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy and tightly integrated into the wider world. These changes challenged a world of inherited institutions and involuntary associations with a new premium on autonomy and choice. They exposed people to cosmopolitan currents of thought and endowed them with unparalleled opportunities. They fostered uncertainties, raised new hopes, stirred dreams of perfection, and created an audience for new ideas of individual freedom and democratic equality deeply resonant today. Provided by publisher. 20211214. Transcendentalism (New England.) Transcendentalists (New England.) Concord (Mass) 19th century History.