TY - BOOK AU - Gura,Philip F. TI - American transcendentalism: a history SN - 0809016443 (pbk.) U1 - 141.30973 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Transcendentalism (New England) KW - BUEsh KW - HHUUEENN KW - October2018 KW - Reading book N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-343) and index; Introduction: locating the "like-minded" -- Searching the scriptures -- Reinvigorating a faith -- Transcendentalism emergent -- Religious combustion -- Centripetal forces and centrifugal motion -- Heaven on earth -- Varieties of transcendentalism -- Self and society -- The inward turn -- Free religion and the dream of a common humanity -- Toward the genteel tradition N2 - A comprehensive history of American transcendentalism which originated with a number of nineteenth-century intellectuals including Ralph Waldo Emerson, and examines their philosophical and religious roots in Europe and opposition to slavery ER -