Criticism

Criticism: The Transcendentalist Experience of Beauty in "The Artist of the Beautiful"
Mariana Mussetta and Andrea Vartalitis, Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Argentina (2010)

[W]e are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but redeemers, and benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay plastic under the Almighty effort, let us advance on Chaos and the Dark. (Emerson, 1161)

Barbara L. Packer

Now Available: An introduction to the essential figures and writings of Transcendentalism

Barbara L. Packer's long essay "The Transcendentalists" is widely acknowledged by scholars of nineteenth-century American literary history as the best-written, most comprehensive treatment to date of Transcendentalism. Previously existing only as part of a volume in the magisterial Cambridge History of American Literature, it will now be available for the first time in a stand-alone edition.