{"product_id":"the-transcendentalists-and-their-world-paperback","title":"The Transcendentalists and Their World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert a. Gross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the eminent and award-winning historian Robert A. Gross comes his long-awaited, immersive journey through Concord in the age of Emerson and Thoreau, \u003ci\u003eThe Transcendentalists and Their World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Best Books of 2021\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy Concord? How did a small and seemingly quiet village in the hinterlands of Boston become, by popular reckoning, the birthplace of two revolutions--the American War of Independence that began with shots fired by the local Minutemen, and the American Renaissance of literature and thought that began with the Transcendentalists' challenge to established pieties? In \u003ci\u003eThe Transcendentalists and Their World\u003c\/i\u003e, the distinguished historian Robert A. Gross gives a rich and beautifully detailed account of the town that Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called home. Their Concord, he shows, was primed for revolt, and was hardly a sleepy, bucolic place fit only for poets and philosophers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived in an age of transformation. A place of more than two thousand souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, one whose small, ordered society, founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen, was dramatically unsettled by the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy while the town became more tightly integrated with the wider world. These changes posed a challenge to a society built on inherited institutions and involuntary associations as citizens placed a new premium on autonomy and choice. Concord was ripe for Emerson and Thoreau. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Transcendentalists and Their World\u003c\/i\u003e is both an intimate journey into the life of a town and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the reaches of the universe for spiritual truths--and took stock of the rapidly changing contours of their surroundings. It shows us familiar literary figures alongside their neighbors--white and Black, devout and blasphemous, and situated at every level of the social order--and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community has been recovered so richly and located so meaningfully within the larger American story.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert A. Gross\u003c\/b\u003e is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Minutemen and Their World\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), which won the Bancroft Prize, and of \u003ci\u003eBooks and Libraries in Thoreau's Concord\u003c\/i\u003e (1988); with Mary Kelley, he is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAn Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). A former assistant editor of \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, he has written for such periodicals as \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and his essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New England Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaritan\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA revised edition of Gross's influential \u003ci\u003eThe Minutemen and Their World\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Picador in 2022 in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 880\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.48 x 8.21 x 5.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759424864544,"sku":"9781250859075","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/51242e3261aa4709662114670ea7e5f7.webp?v=1780152270","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-transcendentalists-and-their-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}