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Book The Transcendentalists and Their World

Download or read book The Transcendentalists and Their World written by Robert A. Gross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Extract from the Twenty sixth Report of the Concord Female Charitable Society  January  1838

Download or read book Extract from the Twenty sixth Report of the Concord Female Charitable Society January 1838 written by Concord Female Charitable Society (Concord, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Synopsis of the Concord Female Charitable Society

Download or read book Synopsis of the Concord Female Charitable Society written by Concord Female Charitable Society (Concord, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Memorial Discourse on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Concord Female Charitable Society  Delivered in the North Church  Concord  N  H  on Sunday Evening  January 26  1862

Download or read book A Memorial Discourse on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Concord Female Charitable Society Delivered in the North Church Concord N H on Sunday Evening January 26 1862 written by Nathaniel Bouton and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Constitution  and Names of Officers and Members of the Concord Female Charitable Society

Download or read book The Constitution and Names of Officers and Members of the Concord Female Charitable Society written by Concord Female Charitable Society (Concord, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Memorial Discourse on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Concord Female Charitable Society

Download or read book A Memorial Discourse on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Concord Female Charitable Society written by Nathaniel Bouton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Memorial Discourse on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Concord Female Charitable Society: Delivered in the North Church, Concord, N. H., On Sunday Evening, January 26, 1862 Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, he told for a memorial of her. WE are assembled this evening to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Concord Female Charitable Society: an Institution whose origin, objects and results entitle it on this occasion to honorable mention, and form for it a memorial worthy to be handed down to future generations. In some points, there is a beautiful analogy between the case of the woman whose single act of affection and sacrifice for her Saviour is so highly commended, and that of this Society whose deeds we propose to rehearse and commemorate. These points of analogy will become sufficiently apparent in the course of our narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Centennial Anniversary of the Concord Female Charitable Society First Congregational Church Concord  New Hampshire Tuesday Evening  January Second Nineteen Hundred and Twelve at 7 30 O clock  There is No New Nor Old  and Time Clasps Hands with Time Across the Lapsed Century

Download or read book Centennial Anniversary of the Concord Female Charitable Society First Congregational Church Concord New Hampshire Tuesday Evening January Second Nineteen Hundred and Twelve at 7 30 O clock There is No New Nor Old and Time Clasps Hands with Time Across the Lapsed Century written by Concord Female Charitable Society (Concord, N.H.) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ladies Sewing Society Records 1887 1893

Download or read book Ladies Sewing Society Records 1887 1893 written by First Presbyterian Church (Davenport, Iowa). Ladies Sewing Society and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Constitution of the Female Charitable Society of Cranbury

Download or read book Constitution of the Female Charitable Society of Cranbury written by Female Charitable Society of Cranbury, N.J. and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Account of the Plan and Regulations of the Female Charitable Society of Newburyport

Download or read book An Account of the Plan and Regulations of the Female Charitable Society of Newburyport written by Newburyport Female Charitable Society, Newburyport, Mass and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Constitution of the Salem Female Charitable Society  Instituted July 1st  1801

Download or read book The Constitution of the Salem Female Charitable Society Instituted July 1st 1801 written by Salem Female Charitable Society (Salem, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prominent Families of New York

Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Windham County  Connecticut  1600 1760

Download or read book History of Windham County Connecticut 1600 1760 written by Ellen Douglas Larned and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Slavery as it is

Download or read book American Slavery as it is written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Very Social Time

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  • Author : Karen V. Hansen
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1996-11-29
  • ISBN : 0520205618
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book A Very Social Time written by Karen V. Hansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-11-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on an extraordinarily rich and varied collection of diaries, letters, and autobiographies of European Americans and African Americans, this book presents the voices and views of unpropertied, unprivileged people and sensitively probes the commonalities and differences in their experiences and perspectives. Hansen persuasively argues that recognizing the 'social' domain illuminates the agency of working people and dissolves the stereotypically gendered public/private dichotomy."—Nancy Grey Osterud, author of Bonds of Community "It is a pleasure to welcome Karen Hansen into the first rank of historical sociologists. In this superb model of scholarship, she leads us on an illuminating tour of the social life of literate working people in antebellum New England. Her arena is 'the social'—the territory that overlaps with private and public, where the dynamics of friendship, visiting, gossip, and collective worship combine to fashion many of life's great joys and sorrows. Best of all, she tells her story through the experiences of the people themselves. In a clear and honest way, Hansen manages to raise fundamental questions about perceived conceptions of gender, class, and the public-private dichotomy."—Neil J. Smelser, University of California, Berkeley "This wonderful book makes a real contribution to our understanding of the lives of women and men in antebellum New England. With its focus on people of modest means and its meticulous and insightful exploration of friendship, visiting, gossip, and church-going, Hansen's work refines and concretizes how we conceive the 'social.'"—Mary Ann Clawson, Wesleyan University "How refreshing it is to see someone address the big issues in sociology based on the experience of real people. Karen Hansen has valuable things to say about the limits of the public/private distinction and the importance of the social. Her book moves the discussion of these issues to a new level."—Alan Wolfe, author of The Human Difference