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| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Part I | Modernity, Media, and the Era of High Capitalism | |
| 1. | Ephemeral Media: Aesthetic Modernity and Early High Capitalism | 25 |
| 2. | News and the "New Spirit" in Art: Mass Media Roots of the Temporal Aesthetic | 65 |
| Part II | Walter Benjamin's Nineteenth Century in Transatlantic Perspective | |
| 3. | Ruins of Type: On Some Motifs in Poe | 97 |
| 4. | Passage through Modernity: Leaves of Grass and the New York Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1853 | 134 |
| Conclusion: The Persistence of the Nineteenth Century | 168 | |
| Notes | 181 | |
| Bibliography | 201 | |
| Index | 211 |
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reviewed Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism on November 14, 2008 Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism
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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