| Description |
viii, 355 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Religion in America series |
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Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Transcendentalism and the Orient -- 2. Predecessors: The First Meetings of East and West. The German Tradition and the East. The English Romantics and the Orient Fair. Joseph Priestley: Moses and the Hindoos -- 3. Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, and the Orient. Emerson's "Asia Mine" Thoreau Sauntering Eastward. Alcott's Universal Bible -- 4. The Dissenters: Melville and Brownson. Melville as Gnostic. Orestes Brownson and Tradition -- 5. The Ambience: Orientalism in General-Interest American Magazines. The Popular Climate West and East -- 6. Ambience and Embodiment of Transcendental Dreams. Converting the World. Images of America's Golden Age. Transcendental Dreams and Earthly Fiction -- 7. Transcendentalist Periodicals and the Orient. Literary Religion and Social Reform: The Western Messenger, The Dial, The Present, The Harbinger, and The Spirit of the Age |
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The Universal and the Particular: The Cincinnati Dial, The Radical, The Index, and the Journal of Speculative Philosophy -- 8. Patterns in Literary Religion: The Orient and the Second Cycle of Transcendentalism. Beginnings: Lydia Maria Child and The Progress of Religious Ideas. Unitarian Transcendentalism: James Freeman Clarke and Elizabeth Peabody. Universal Religion: John Weiss and Samuel Johnson. The Sympathetic Universalism of William Rounseville Alger. Octavius Brooks Frothingham's Religion of Humanity and Moncure Conway's Anthropocentrism -- 9. Conclusion. Drawing Conclusions in the Drawing Room. Artists and Asia. Popular Ramifications. The Twentieth Century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349) and index |
| Subject |
Transcendentalism (New England)
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| SUBJECT |
Asia -- Religion http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114280 -- Influence.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002005444
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| LC no. |
92024770 |
| ISBN |
0195076583 (alk. paper) |
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