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Book Sophia Willard Dana Ripley

Download or read book Sophia Willard Dana Ripley written by Henrietta Dana Raymond and published by Peter Randall Pub. This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of on of America's most interesting utopian communities.

Book Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism written by Tiffany K. Wayne and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference guide to transcendentalism, with articles on significant works, writers, concepts and more.

Book Roads to Rome

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jenny Franchot
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-03-29
  • ISBN : 0520310306
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Roads to Rome written by Jenny Franchot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America. Franchot analyzes the effects of religious attitudes on historical ideas about America's origins and destiny. She then focuses on the popular tales of convent incarceration, with their Protestant "maidens" and lecherous, tyrannical Church superiors. Religious captivity narratives, like those of Indian captivity, were part of the ethnically, theologically, and sexually charged discourse of Protestant nativism. Discussions of Stowe, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Lowell—writers who sympathized with "Romanism" and used its imaginative properties in their fiction—further demonstrate the profound influence of religious forces on American national character. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism written by Joel Myerson and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume includes fifty original essays from a group of renowned scholars as well as a compact chronology and specialized bibliographies. It offers a rich, authoritative, interdisciplinary account, providing scholars with the definitive resource on this seminal movement in American culture."--From the dust jacket.

Book Galahad in the Gilded Age

Download or read book Galahad in the Gilded Age written by Linda Dowling and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galahad in the Gilded Age is the story of George William Curtis, regarded at the beginning of his career as little more than a handsome, amusing young man from a socially prominent family. His life would change dramatically after four years traveling in Europe and the Levant, from which he returned to find himself a literary celebrity—“the Howadji”—following the appearance of two books describing his Middle East experiences that some considered so provocatively sensuous as to border on obscenity. Yet during this early celebrity, Curtis would find his life changing profoundly—discovering marital happiness, facing financial bankruptcy and finding himself irresistibly drawn into increasingly bitter controversies: the national battle against slavery, against wide-spreading political corruption, and against what Curtis regarded as a wholly unreasonable resistance to granting women the right to vote. George William Curtis, a contemporary would conclude after his death, was “the best knight of our time.”

Book The Early Years of Isaac Thomas Hecker  1819 1844

Download or read book The Early Years of Isaac Thomas Hecker 1819 1844 written by Vincent F. Holden and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 - December 22, 1888), an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.

Book Host bibliographic record for boundwith item barcode 89064468010

Download or read book Host bibliographic record for boundwith item barcode 89064468010 written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rosary Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 796 pages

Download or read book The Rosary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters from Brook Farm  1844 1847

Download or read book Letters from Brook Farm 1844 1847 written by Marianne Dwight Orvis and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dana Family in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Ellery Dana
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-01-03
  • ISBN : 3375177151
  • Pages : 714 pages

Download or read book The Dana Family in America written by Elizabeth Ellery Dana and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Book Love  Wages  Slavery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Ryan
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0252030710
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Love Wages Slavery written by Barbara Ryan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the home the sacred center of social life in the nineteenth-century United States, few social tensions carried more weight than "the servant problem." As slavery tore at the nation, tension about domestic dependency became a heated topic to which publishers responded by producing a steady stream of literature instructing homemakers how to hire, treat, and discipline staff. In Love, Wages, Slavery, Barbara Ryan surveys an expansive collection of these published materials to chart shifts in thinking about what made a servant "good" and how servitors felt about attending non-kin, as well as changing ideas about gender, waged and chattel labor, status, race, and family life." "Love, Wages, Slavery examines the nature of "free" servitude before and after Emancipation through an in-depth comparison of negotiations of attendance and household management. Paying particular attention to women servants, Ryan traces a complex discussion as it developed in such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Godey's Lady's Book, and Harper's Bazar."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Stirring the Nation s Heart

Download or read book Stirring the Nation s Heart written by Polly Peterson and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transcendentalism

Download or read book Transcendentalism written by Joel Myerson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-14 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism provided a springboard for the first distinctly American forays into intellectual culture: religion and religious reform, philosophy, literature, ecology, and spiritualism. This new collection, edited by eminent American literature scholar Joel Myerson, is the first anthology of the period to appear in over fifty years. Transcendentalism: A Reader draws together in their entirety the essential writings of the Transcendentalist group during its most active period, 1836-1844. It includes the major publications of the Dial, the writings on democratic and social reform, the early poetry, nature writings, and all of Emerson's major essays, as well as an informative introduction and annotations by Myerson.

Book Conflagration

    Book Details:
  • Author : John A. Buehrens
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2020-01-14
  • ISBN : 080702404X
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Conflagration written by John A. Buehrens and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic retelling of the story of the Transcendentalists, revealing them not as isolated authors but as a community of social activists who shaped progressive American values. Conflagration illuminates the connections between key members of the Transcendentalist circle—including James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Healey Dall, Elizabeth Stanton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller—who created a community dedicated to radical social activism. These authors and activists laid the groundwork for democratic and progressive religion in America. In the tumultuous decades before and immediately after the Civil War, the Transcendentalists changed nineteenth-century America, leading what Theodore Parker called “a Second American Revolution.” They instigated lasting change in American society, not only through their literary achievements but also through their activism: transcendentalists fought for the abolition of slavery, democratically governed churches, equal rights for women, and against the dehumanizing effects of brutal economic competition and growing social inequality. The Transcendentalists’ passion for social equality stemmed from their belief in spiritual friendship—transcending differences in social situation, gender, class, theology, and race. Together, their fight for justice changed the American sociopolitical landscape. They understood that none of us can ever fulfill our own moral and spiritual potential unless we care about the full spiritual and moral flourishing of others.

Book The American Experiment

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  • Author : James MacGregor Burns
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-05-21
  • ISBN : 148043020X
  • Pages : 2467 pages

Download or read book The American Experiment written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 2467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize–­ and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. In The Workshop of Democracy, Burns explores more than a half-century of dramatic growth and transformation of the American landscape, through the addition of dozens of new states, the shattering tragedy of the First World War, the explosion of industry, and, in the end, the emergence of the United States as a new global power. And in The Crosswinds of Freedom, Burns offers an articulate and incisive examination of the US during its rise to become the world’s sole superpower—through the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the rapid pace of technological change that gave rise to the “American Century.”

Book The Vineyard of Liberty  1787   1863

Download or read book The Vineyard of Liberty 1787 1863 written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War. The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic’s early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from Washington to Lincoln and of lesser-known figures. Captivating and insightful, Burns’s history combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. Vineyard of Liberty is a sweeping and engrossing narrative of America’s formative years.