Transcendentalism in New England: A History
Description
Octavius Brooks Frothingham’s history traces the philosophical and literary backgrounds of New England Transcendentalism and examines its practical and religious tendencies, with chapters on Emerson, Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, and George Ripley. The supplied scan has an 1880 title page; the archive’s 1876 date agrees with the dated preface but does not identify this scanned issue. The reader contents include the original Preface, fifteen chapters, and the whole Index. The first Index page has a damaged folio; its page number is inferred from the following page.
Digitized source: Internet Archive / Google Books. Chapter openings and terminal sections have been checked; the scan has not been collated leaf by leaf.
Table of contents 17 entries
- Preface v
- I. Beginnings in Germany 1
- II. Transcendentalism in Germany—Kant, Jacobi, Fichte, etc. 14
- III. Theology and Literature—Schleiermacher, Goethe, Richter, etc. 47
- IV. Transcendentalism in France—Cousin, Constant, Jouffroy, etc. 60
- V. Transcendentalism in England—Coleridge, Carlyle, Wordsworth. 76
- VI. Transcendentalism in New England 105
- VII. Practical Tendencies 142
- VIII. Religious Tendencies 185
- IX. The Seer—Emerson 218
- X. The Mystic—Alcott 249
- XI. The Critic—Margaret Fuller 284
- XII. The Preacher—Theodore Parker 302
- XIII. The Man of Letters—George Ripley 322
- XIV. Minor Prophets 335
- XV. Literature 357
- Index 385