Author: Elizabeth R. McKinsey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674950405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Describes transcendalism as it moves West and settles in the Ohio River Valley where it did not capture the sensibilities of frontier people. Its intellectualism and its ties to nature were at some distance from these hardworking pioneers and it failed to transform them in the nineteenth century.