Conflagration : how the Transcendentalists sparked the American struggle for racial, gender, and social justice /

Conflagration illuminates the connections between key members of the Transcendentalist circle, including James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Healey Dall, Elizabeth Stanton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller, who created a community dedicated to radical so...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Buehrens, John A., 1947- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Transcendentalism (New England) > History. Transcendentalism (New England) > Influence. Social justice > United States > History. Transcendentalists (New England)

Table of Contents:

Leading dramatis personae
Grandchildren of the revolution
Fire. Exposition
Conviction
Inclusion
Mutual inspiration
Water. Dissolution of the pastoral relation
Affection and vocation
Division because of inclusion
Unequal union, or marriage in the nineteenth century
Tribulation and separation
Earth. Collaboration
Rendition and insurrection
Emancipation
Organization
Spirit. Evolution and differentiation
Circumference and expansion
Succession
Application.