The Delicious Sense of Foreignness”
American Transcendentalism in the Atlantic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16769459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel C Dillard (Florida State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-231 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Nineteenth Century History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-4658 • E-ISSN: 1743-7903 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14664658.2013.775747 |
| OpenAlex | W2013523374 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This essay presents one example of the ways in which place, transiency, and change have shaped the American experience. In the mid-nineteenth century a diverse group of American Transcendentalists came together on the island of Fayal in the Azores. The Transcendentalists' reaction to the Portuguese Catholic culture they encountered in the Azores indicates a broader pattern among nineteenth-century American liberals. These tourists operated within a larger transatlantic atmosphere of uncertainty characterized at times by hope but also by crisis. This culture of uncertainty, moreover, was one of the key factors in shaping how American liberals struggled with their conceptions of religion and nation
Aesthetics · Art · Atmosphere (unit · Culture of the United States · Geography · Key (lock · Meteorology · Political science · Portuguese · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |