Overview :"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England l... Read More
Overview :Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well a... Read More
Overview :With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it.... Read More
Overview :The idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of at... Read More
Overview :Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteris... Read More
Overview :This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late ... Read More
Overview :Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A ... Read More