Radical Beauty : American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity.
Spahr, Clemens.
Radical Beauty : American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (251 pages) - Beiträge Zur Englischen und Amerikanischen Literatur Series ; v.31 . - Beiträge Zur Englischen und Amerikanischen Literatur Series .
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.
9783657772162
Electronic books.
B905 .S634 2011
Radical Beauty : American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (251 pages) - Beiträge Zur Englischen und Amerikanischen Literatur Series ; v.31 . - Beiträge Zur Englischen und Amerikanischen Literatur Series .
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.
9783657772162
Electronic books.
B905 .S634 2011