Transatlantic Transcendentalism: Coleridge, Emerson and Nature

Transatlantic Transcendentalism: Coleridge, Emerson and Nature
ISBN-10
074868137X
ISBN-13
9780748681372
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2013-06-11
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Samantha C. Harvey

Description

As Samantha C. Harvey demonstrates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's thought galvanized Emerson at a pivotal moment in his intellectual development in the years 1826-1836, giving him new ways to harmonize the Romantic triad of nature, spirit, and humanity. Emerson did not think about Coleridge: he thought with Coleridge, resulting in a unique case of assimilative influence. In addition to examining his specific literary, philosophical, and theological influences on Emerson, this book reveals Coleridge's centrality for Boston Transcendentalism and Vermont Transcendentalism, a movement which profoundly affected the development of modern higher education, the national press, and the emergence of Pragmatism.

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