Author: Richard D. Hathaway
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Sylvester Judd (1813-53) is presented here as a representative figure whose life and works illustrate the intellectual and religious tensions of Emerson's day. A convert from Congregationalism to Unitarianism, Judd flirted next with transcendentalism, touching on most points in the New England compass during his intellectual and spiritual odyssey. How did a youth from a backwater Massachusetts village reach the point where Margaret Fuller called his Margaret "this one 'Yankee novel'" and Lowell hailed it as "the first Yankee book with the soul of Down East in't"? Born in Westhampton, "where carpets, pianos, art works, Unitarians, and novels were regarded as not only unnecessary but downright unwelcome," Judd became a Unitarian and arrived at the Harvard Divinity School in time to hear Emerson deliver his "American Scholar" address. Although he could not accept fully the Emersonian heresy, he became a friend of Jones Very, the transcendentalist poet. As a Unitarian minister in Augusta, Maine, for the last thirteen years of his brief life, Judd preached against the "moral evils" of war, slavery, and sectarian strife. He also married the richest girl in town, daughter of a U.S. Senator, and his father-in-law defended Judd's right to espouse unpopular social causes. Judd committed the greater indiscretion, even for a Unitarian divine, of publishing novels and poems. One novel, Margaret, was attacked by Genteel critics as "vulgar" but was championed by Lowell, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker for its vigor and its use of back-country vocabulary. Margaret "combines the real with the ideal in a homely way," verging on the pantheism of ultra-transcendentalists but clinging to the certainties of Christianity, children, and chickens.
Sylvester Judd's New England
Author: Richard D. Hathaway
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Sylvester Judd (1813-53) is presented here as a representative figure whose life and works illustrate the intellectual and religious tensions of Emerson's day. A convert from Congregationalism to Unitarianism, Judd flirted next with transcendentalism, touching on most points in the New England compass during his intellectual and spiritual odyssey. How did a youth from a backwater Massachusetts village reach the point where Margaret Fuller called his Margaret "this one 'Yankee novel'" and Lowell hailed it as "the first Yankee book with the soul of Down East in't"? Born in Westhampton, "where carpets, pianos, art works, Unitarians, and novels were regarded as not only unnecessary but downright unwelcome," Judd became a Unitarian and arrived at the Harvard Divinity School in time to hear Emerson deliver his "American Scholar" address. Although he could not accept fully the Emersonian heresy, he became a friend of Jones Very, the transcendentalist poet. As a Unitarian minister in Augusta, Maine, for the last thirteen years of his brief life, Judd preached against the "moral evils" of war, slavery, and sectarian strife. He also married the richest girl in town, daughter of a U.S. Senator, and his father-in-law defended Judd's right to espouse unpopular social causes. Judd committed the greater indiscretion, even for a Unitarian divine, of publishing novels and poems. One novel, Margaret, was attacked by Genteel critics as "vulgar" but was championed by Lowell, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker for its vigor and its use of back-country vocabulary. Margaret "combines the real with the ideal in a homely way," verging on the pantheism of ultra-transcendentalists but clinging to the certainties of Christianity, children, and chickens.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Sylvester Judd (1813-53) is presented here as a representative figure whose life and works illustrate the intellectual and religious tensions of Emerson's day. A convert from Congregationalism to Unitarianism, Judd flirted next with transcendentalism, touching on most points in the New England compass during his intellectual and spiritual odyssey. How did a youth from a backwater Massachusetts village reach the point where Margaret Fuller called his Margaret "this one 'Yankee novel'" and Lowell hailed it as "the first Yankee book with the soul of Down East in't"? Born in Westhampton, "where carpets, pianos, art works, Unitarians, and novels were regarded as not only unnecessary but downright unwelcome," Judd became a Unitarian and arrived at the Harvard Divinity School in time to hear Emerson deliver his "American Scholar" address. Although he could not accept fully the Emersonian heresy, he became a friend of Jones Very, the transcendentalist poet. As a Unitarian minister in Augusta, Maine, for the last thirteen years of his brief life, Judd preached against the "moral evils" of war, slavery, and sectarian strife. He also married the richest girl in town, daughter of a U.S. Senator, and his father-in-law defended Judd's right to espouse unpopular social causes. Judd committed the greater indiscretion, even for a Unitarian divine, of publishing novels and poems. One novel, Margaret, was attacked by Genteel critics as "vulgar" but was championed by Lowell, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker for its vigor and its use of back-country vocabulary. Margaret "combines the real with the ideal in a homely way," verging on the pantheism of ultra-transcendentalists but clinging to the certainties of Christianity, children, and chickens.
Sylvester Judd
Author: Francis B. Dedmond
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
History of Hadley
Author: Sylvester Judd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amherst (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amherst (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Memorabilia
Author: Sylvester Judd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Memorabilia: from the Journals of Sylvester Judd, of Northampton, Mass., 1809-1860
Author: Sylvester Judd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Thomas Judd and His Descendants
Author: Sylvester Judd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial
Author: William Richard Cutter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The History of Hadley, Massachusetts
Author: Sylvester Judd
Publisher: Picton Press
ISBN:
Category : Hadley (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher: Picton Press
ISBN:
Category : Hadley (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description