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Product Description: "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen...read more
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9781626981102 | Orbis Books, February 10, 2015, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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9781628737943 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, July 1, 2014, cover price $9.95
Product 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...read more
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9780748681365 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, August 1, 2013, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: As Samantha C.
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9789400706231 | 1 edition (Springer Verlag, April 19, 2011), cover price $419.00 | About this edition: This collection offers a critical assessment of transcendentalism, the understanding of consciousness, absolutized as a system of a priori laws of the mind, that was advanced by Kant and Husserl.
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9789400735842 | Springer Verlag, May 29, 2013, cover price $419.00 | About this edition: This book offers readers a critical assessment of transcendentalism, defined as the understanding of consciousness structured as a system of a priori laws of the mind.
Product Description: Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able to focus on both the timeless and the timely...read more
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9780820344287 | Univ of Georgia Pr, February 1, 2013, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future?
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9780820344294 | Univ of Georgia Pr, February 1, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future?
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9780230338746 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman.
Product Description: Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, remain two of the best-known American women. But few people know how Sullivan came to her role as teacher of the deaf and blind Keller. Contrasting their lives with Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, the era's prominent abolitionist, this book sheds light on the gender and disability expectations that affected the public perception of Sullivan and Keller...read more
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9781594519369 | Paradigm Pub, June 30, 2011, cover price $174.95 | About this edition: Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, remain two of the best-known American women.
Product Description: An engaging, full-color illustrated guide to the romantic and transcendentalist era in American literature, this updated volume provides important information on the foundations of romantic thought, romanticism and the new nation, gothic romance and sentimentalism, transcendentalism, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, and romanticism and poetic voice...read more
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9781604134865 | 2 edition (Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 2010), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: An engaging, full-color illustrated guide to the romantic and transcendentalist era in American literature, this updated volume provides important information on the foundations of romantic thought, romanticism and the new nation, gothic romance and sentimentalism, transcendentalism, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, and romanticism and poetic voice.
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9781887917070 | Small Pr United, September 1, 2009, cover price $14.95
Product Description: How do I live a good life, one that is deeply personal and sensitive to others? John T. Lysaker suggests that those who take this question seriously need to reexamine the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In philosophical reflections on topics such as genius, divinity, friendship, and reform, Lysaker explores "self-culture" or the attempt to remain true to one's deepest commitments...read more
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9780253351074 | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: How do I live a good life, one that is deeply personal and sensitive to others?
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9780253219718 | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $28.00
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9780253000224 | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $24.95
Product Description: This book attempts to reveal the previously underemphasized Eastern roots of the transcendentalist thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. This work should appeal to scholars interested in inter-religious dialogue and Transcendentalist thought...read more
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9780773453517 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 21, 2007, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This book attempts to reveal the previously underemphasized Eastern roots of the transcendentalist thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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9780195076585 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 16, 1993, cover price $170.00
Product Description: American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emersonâs resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed to the âaccoutrements of society and civilizationâ and expresses a Transcendentalist antipathy toward all institutionalized forms of religious observance...read more
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9780822310594 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emersonâs resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature.
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9780865542587 | Mercer Univ Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $34.95
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