Transcendentalism
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Victor Nuovo: A little-known transcendentalist
27th essay in a seriesI suspect that almost everyone who reads this essay will be unfamiliar with Margaret Fuller (1810–50). Her name does not ring a bell in…
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Victor Nuovo: Transcendentalism
23rd in a series During the middle of the third decade of the 19th century, there occurred in New England a third great awakening. It did not pertain…
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Victor Nuovo: Transcendentalism and moral duty
Editor’s note: This is the 30th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. “Transcendentalism” signifies the flowering of culture in…