The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism
- ISBN-10
- 0195331036
- ISBN-13
- 9780195331035
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 755
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-04-16
- Publisher
- OUP USA
- Authors
- Laura Dassow Walls, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
Description
"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."--The dust jacket.
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