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Radical Beauty : American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Beiträge Zur Englischen und Amerikanischen Literatur SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2019Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783657772162
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Radical BeautyLOC classification:
  • B905 .S634 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Radical Beauty: American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity -- 2. William Ellery Channing: Unitarianism, Aesthetics, and Social Criticism -- 3. Radicalism Contained: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Aesthetic Utopianism -- 4. Romantic Revolutions: Margaret Fuller and the Logic of the Aesthetic -- 5. A State of Beauty: Orestes Brownson's Transcendentalist Class Struggle -- 6. Aesthetic Education: The Utopias of George Ripley and Amos Bronson Alcott -- 7. Terra Firma/Terra Utopica: Aesthetics and Social Radicalism in Henry David Thoreau -- Conclusion: Romanticism's Endgame -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Radical Beauty: American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity -- 2. William Ellery Channing: Unitarianism, Aesthetics, and Social Criticism -- 3. Radicalism Contained: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Aesthetic Utopianism -- 4. Romantic Revolutions: Margaret Fuller and the Logic of the Aesthetic -- 5. A State of Beauty: Orestes Brownson's Transcendentalist Class Struggle -- 6. Aesthetic Education: The Utopias of George Ripley and Amos Bronson Alcott -- 7. Terra Firma/Terra Utopica: Aesthetics and Social Radicalism in Henry David Thoreau -- Conclusion: Romanticism's Endgame -- Bibliography -- Index.

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