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Acknowledgments vii
Unitarian Beginnings 1
The Assault on Locke 20
Carlyle and the Beginnings of American Transcendentalism 32
"Annus Mirabilis" 46
The Establishment and the Movement 62
Letters and Social Aims 94
The Hope of Reform 129
Diaspora 165
The Antislavery Years 218
Selected Bibliography 275
Index 289
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Jack Smith
reviewed The Transcendentalists on June 27, 2008
The Transcendentalists
An excellent overview and a model for American intellectual historians. Packer situates the Transcendentalists. She shows how Unitarian New England both nurtured and appalled them, how European ideas and events transfixed them, how they encouraged and exasperated each other, and how their individualistic and idealistic philosophy left them with an ambiguous social legacy. Resistant to conformity, the Transcendentalists were simultaneously the avant-garde and the rear echelon of reform in America. And, Packer concludes, they owed their tenacity and intellectual range to the sturdy New England moralism into which they were born.
Packer skillfully navigates through the lives and publishing projects of the various Transcendentalists and their associates, following one figure and then another without losing her way in the overall chronology. She examines them critically, sympathetically, and humorously, teasing them for their eccentricities and pettiness as well as showing us their many moments of courage and literary brilliance.
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