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Two Perspectives on Emerson's Journals

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By Lawrence Rosenwald | Edited by Russell C. Powell The first time I read Emerson’s journals, I was reading as a scholar preparing a celebratory analysis, a case for their importance and majesty. My attitude was discipular or apostolary or evangelical...

Grappling with the T-word

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By Robert Thorson | Edited by Russell C. Powell The scholarly literature on transcendentalism is full of good descriptions, but not of good definitions. In The Transcendentalists and Their World, Robert Gross consciously left the movement undefined...

Margaret Fuller and the Self-Reliance of Women

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In the third episode of "Living Texts," Phyllis Cole explores how Margaret Fuller took the Transcendentalist ideal of self-reliance and transformed it into a much broader argument for women’s freedom in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Fuller begins from...

Lydia Maria Child and the Eclectic Church of the Future

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By Leigh E. Schmidt | Edited by Gosia E. Sklodowska As a nineteenth-century social reformer and writer, New Englander Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) covered a lot of ground: woman’s equality, abolition, prison reform, historical fiction, children’s...

Emerson and the Problem of Evil

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In the second episode of "Living Texts," John Kaag explores Ralph Waldo Emerson's lifelong engagement with theodicy—the enduring philosophical and religious question of how suffering and evil can exist within a universe imbued with the divine. Beginning...

Thoreau, Joseph Nicolar, and the Penobscot World

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In this inaugural episode of Living Texts, Gosia Sklodowska speaks with John Kucich about Henry David Thoreau’s “The Allegash and East Branch” and Joseph Nicolar’s Life and Traditions of the Red Man.

Cultivating Ecological Vision: Thoreau, Emerson, and Goethe

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By Ryan Shea | Edited by Russell C. Powell An encompassing ecological vision may be one of our best hopes not only for a healthy and habitable future, but also for a wise and worthwhile present. Such an ecology cannot be less than a science, but it can...