...Christopher W. Sten Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 BARTLEBY THE TRANSCENDENTALIST MELVILLE’S DEAD LETTER TO EMERSON By CHRISTOPHERW. STEN In his essay “The Transcendentalist” (1843), Emerson remarked that he...

... incommensurate, a more holistic view of transcendentalism results from acknowledging both: Miller’s preference for accounts of individual struggle, self-doubt, and ambiguity and Nelson’s insistence on the transcendentalists’ embrace of movements for social change. I am grateful to several members...

... Transcendence and Antebellum Technology Paul Gilmore n January 1839, after frequently defending Ralph Waldo Emerson Iagainst the attacks of the Unitarian establishment, Orestes Brownson offered his own critique of the Concord transcendentalist. Insisting that “the scholar must have an end to which...

... to descend from this com- mon ancestor. Carafiol shows that versions of these problematic claims appear in most subsequent major histories of Transcendentalism, up to and including Lawrence Buell’s Literary Transcendentalism (1973). But Carafiol’s analysis of this pattern in Transcendentalist...

.... By Anita Haya Patterson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x + 257 pp. $49.95. Many different “Emersons” circulate through the humanities. He has been studied as a philosopher and an abolitionist, as a poet and an economic thinker, as a transcendentalist and the father of American...

... vocabulary. In the period of which Philip Gura writes, that need showed itself most dramatically in the Transcendentalist revolt against what Emerson called “the corpse-cold Unitarianism . . . of Brattle street 8c Boston Transcendentalism was at once a revolt and a religious revival, a revolt...

... in the coun- try would have published, with the exception of Miss Fuller.”22 Poe’s vindictive thrust at poor Ellery Channing toward the end of the selection quoted above must have been the result rather of a dis- taste for Transcendentalists in general than a case of critical horrors over the work...

....” He continues: We have been accustomed to think that at tlie far end of such roads the ghosts of the Transcendentalists still live. Obviously they do not live at this end. Mr. Morse is not the ghost of a Transcendentalist. If he has any use at all for Kant, it is to keep up...

... in America as in his own country; the other derived from the Transcendentalists and their associates. The author regards the period from 1842 to 1865 as the years of Richter’s greatest popularity in America. It is also the time of the most active interest in Jean Paul on the part of Charles T...

... for religious or moral belief, a point of view which all idealists and transcendentalists came later to accept. Kierkegaard does not seem to understand that he is here confusing several contradictory elements. There is the great J. H. Groth 355...

... England Transcendentalists, an outstand- ing Unitarian theologian, an intimate of Emerson, to mention but one of his illustrious friends, responsible for Margaret Fuller’s study ...

... to theology. During his pastorate at Bangor (1835-1850) he made an outstanding reputation as a German scholar and, more especially, as a translator. A leader of the New England Transcendentalists, an outstand- ing Unitarian theologian, an intimate of Emerson, to mention but one of his...

... discovered, since it provided a reductive core from which he could generate a sense of reality for himself and for his readers. Moreover, such a reality set him aside from the Concord Transcendentalists, from Emerson, and from his Euro- pean literary forebears. It gave his prose both sinew...

... had discovered, since it provided a reductive core from which he could generate a sense of reality for himself and for his readers. Moreover, such a reality set him aside from the Concord Transcendentalists, from Emerson, and from his Euro- pean literary forebears. It gave his prose...

..., and “possibly to that obscure force, national character” (p. 33). A second, and fuller, statement of his governing theory is found in the essay on the minor Transcendentalists and German philosophy, where he shies away from attributing “influence’’ to the Germans until one distinguishes between...

... anxieties of marginality, nineteenth-century claims about the public relevance of the aesthetic specialist draw on the foundations of artistic autonomy laid in Kan- tian aesthetics and revised by Romantic transcendentalists.8 The con- tested reception of Kant’s third Critique indicates how...

... manifestations, such as Boehme’s “Aurora,” it is attended by a bent toward insanity. Yet in “The Transcendentalist” he had stressed the transcendental belief in inspiration, ecstasy, and miracle. The divine mind reveals its presence to Emerson much as it did to Boehme, by an influx of the light...

...- scendentalism had become too cozy and familiar. @. 24) That is, she saw disjunction where the Transcendentalists saw con- tinuity; thus “the fragmentation of her poetic utterances” and her way of “constructing the sharp, nondiscursive image, the instant’s in- sight committed to language...

.... Asselineau, Roger. The Transcendentalist Constant in American Literature. New York and London: New York University Press, 1980. xii + 189 pp. $1’7.50, cloth; $7.00, paper. Benson, Brian Joseph, and Mabel Mayle Dillard. Jean Toomer. Boston: G. K. Hall, Twayne’s United States Authors Series...

..., Riverside Edition (Boston, 1914), X, 279-80. 2 Robert P. Falk, “Emerson and Shakespeare,” PMLA, LVI (1941), 532-43, suggests that contradictory remarks in the Shakespearean criticism of Emerson are due to a “dualistic dilemma.” Emerson is both a “transcendentalist” and a “realist...