Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 1800-1860: American Literature in Its Historical Cultural, and Social Contexts (Backgrounds to American Literature) - Hardcover

This engaging guide includes important information on the foundations of romantic thought, romanticism and the new nation, gothic romance and sentimentalism, transcendentalism, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, and romanticism and poetic voice. The writers covered include: Charles Brockden Brown; William Cullen Bryant; James Fenimore Cooper; Emily Dickinson; Frederick Douglass; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Margaret Fuller; Washington Irving; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Edgar Allan Poe; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Henry David Thoreau; Walt Whitman; and more.