Radical Transcendentalisms

A powerful defense of Transcendentalism against liberal and individualist accusations that have long been hurled at it.

Radical Transcendentalisms recovers the intense relationship that the nineteenth-century Transcendentalist movement had with radical social reform. The authors argue that Transcendentalism in fact offers a deep critique of capitalist social relations, and that we might reexamine this critique in order to draw inspiration for our contentious political present.

ISBN: 9798903931897

Publication date: June 18, 2027

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Radical Transcendentalisms
Alex Moskowitz

Part 1 Labour

1 Orestes Brownson and R.W. Emerson on Abolition and Labour Then and Now
Emily J. Dumler-Winckler

2 A Natural Critic of Political Economy: Thoreau, Marx, and the Temporal Problem of Labour
Alec Israeli

3 Louisa May Alcott’s Work and the Aesthetics of Labour
Ben Bascom

4 This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: Henry George and Common Property
Nathaniel Windon

Part 2 Gender, Race, and Indigeneity

5 Cutting, Sending, Pasting: Margaret Fuller’s Radical Print Networks in 1840s England
Sonia Di Loreto

6 Transcendence: Toward a Black Feminist Transcendentalism
Marlas Yvonne Whitley

7 Abolitionist Feminism: Margaret Fuller’s Critique of Spinoza on Gender
Ted Stolze

8 ‘A Kind of Open, Living Book’: Reading Native Bodies in The Maine Woods
Sara Monahan

9 A Yard of One’s Own: H.D.’s Sea Garden and the New England Regionalists
Anna Beaudry

10 The Social Movement in Europe
Heinrich Börnstein

11 Review of Der Volks-Tribun: Organ Der Deutschen Sozial Reform-Association in New York / Tribune of the People: Organ of the German Social Reform-Association in New York, 5 Jan’y, 1846
Margaret Fuller

Part 3 Impact, Influence, Praxis

12 Transcending Transcendentalism: Tragic Happiness in Emily Dickinson and Friedrich Nietzsche
Irene Lopez Sanchez

13 Radical Return: Transcendentalist Legacies in Contemporary Fiction
Georgia Walton

14 Would Henry Thoreau Have Blown Up a Pipeline? The Radical Transcendentalism of ‘A Plea for Captain John Brown’
Paul Downes

Index