ISBN: 978-0976670643, 180 pages, 7.5 x 7.5; 93 color images, 56 B & W images, 7 maps, $19.95
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This lavishly illustrated volume examines the major figures of the Transcendentalist movement and explores the places that inspired them. Beginning with Transcendentalism’s birth in Boston and Cambridge, the book charts the development of a movement that revolutionized American ideas about the artistic, spiritual, and natural worlds. At the same time, it creates a vivid sense of New England in the nineteenth century, from its idyllic countryside and sleepy towns to its bustling ports and burgeoning cities. The book is divided geographically into chapters, each focusing on a town or village famous for its relationship to one or more of the Transcendentalists. Thus, for instance, one chapter spotlights Cambridge, where Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his path-breaking lectures, while another explores Walden, when Henry David Thoreau spent two years attuning himself to the rhythms of nature. Other chapters retrace the paths of writers and poets such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Margaret Fuller through Salem, Amherst, Boston, and Concord and the utopian communities of Brook Farm and the Fruitlands.

R. Todd Felton is a professional writer and prize-winning photographer who lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Contents

Foreword by Jeffrey Cramer

1. Transcendentalism: An Introduction
2. Boston: Public Face
3. Cambridge: Training Ground
4. Concord: Heart and Soul
5. Walden: Secular and Sacred
6. Salem: Sins of the Past
7. Utopian Societies: Transcendent Communities
8. Amherst: Paradise

Timeline
Index
For Further Reading

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