Author: Massachusetts Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Forty-second Annual Report of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, Presented by the Executive Committee, at the Anniversary Meeting in Boston, May 25, 1841
Author: Massachusetts Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Transcendentalists and Their World
Author: Robert A. GrossPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021 One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021 Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism. 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. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a community and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the rapidly changing contours of their own neighborhoods. It shows us familiar figures in American literature alongside their neighbors at every level of the social order, and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community of the nineteenth century has been recovered so richly and with so acute an awareness of its place in the larger American story.
Forty-first Annual Report of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, Presented by the Executive Committee, at the Anniversary Meeting in Boston, May 26, 1840
Author: Massachusetts Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, Presented by the Executive Committee, at the Anniversary Meeting in Boston, May 30, 1843
Author: Massachusetts Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Forty-third Annual Report of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, Presented by the Executive Committee, at the Anniversary Meeting in Boston, May 24, 1842
Author: Massachusetts Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949: Non-Dewey decimal classified titles
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2200
Book Description
Thirty-second Annual Report of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, Presented by the Executive Committee at the Anniversary Meeting in Boston, May 24, 1831
Author: Massachusetts Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Thirty-sixth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, Presented by the Executive Committee, at the Anniversary Meeting in Boston, May 26, 1835
Author: The Thirty-first Annual Report, of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, Presented by the Executive Committee at the Anniversary Meeting in Boston, May 25, 1830
Author: Massachusetts Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description