UID:
edocfu_9959230041102883
Format:
1 online resource (364 pages)
ISBN:
0-19-773816-8
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1-280-44251-4
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0-19-536037-0
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1-4237-6477-3
Series Statement:
Religion in America series
Content:
This study of the relationship between American transcendentalism and the Asian religions traces the history of the transcendentalist movement in the USA and the profound influence of Orientalism on the movement.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1993.
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Contents; 1. Introduction: Transcendentalism and the Orient; 2. Predecessors: The First Meetings of East and West; 3. Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, and the Orient; 4. The Dissenters: Melville and Brownson; 5. The Ambience: Orientalism in General-Interest American Magazines; 6. Ambience and Embodiment of Transcendental Dreams; 7. Transcendentalist Periodicals and the Orient; 8. Patterns in Literary Religion: The Orient and the Second Cycle of Transcendentalism; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-507658-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195076585.001.0001
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