Coleridge and Transcendentalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20047765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony John Harding (Plymouth Marjon University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Pages | 233-253 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Coleridge Connection (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-20667-4_11 |
| OpenAlex | W2506337037 |
| ISBN | 9781349206674 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Transcendentalism delivered no tidy body of doctrine, no distinctive new aesthetic, and no unified, coherent programme for political action. The men and women who considered themselves part of the transcendentalist movement often disagreed profoundly about such questions as the future of religion, the attitude Americans should take towards British culture, and the respective claims of individualism and collectivism. Transcendentalism was also confined geographically to the relatively small area of the American continent known as New England, its main centres being in Massachusetts (Concord, Boston and Cambridge) with some sympathisers in Maine, Vermont and further afield. It is all the more striking that transcendentalism should have played such a large part in the creation of a distinctly American literary tradition, and that the energy and originality of this loose association of individuals should have prompted historians to adopt such terms as ‘Renaissance’ and ‘Flowering’ to characterise it
Aesthetics · Art history · Collectivism · Doctrine · Environmental ethics · Humanities · Individualism · Originality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Renaissance · Anthropology · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |