American Transcendentalists

MMP WITTR paper - Seifert and Murray

by Amelia-Roísín Seifert

Walt Whitman: Homoeroticism in Leaves of Grass

by Dario Abram

Environmental Activism in Music

by Richard Kahn

In: Music in American Life: The Songs, Stories, Styles, and Stars that Shaped Our Culture, Jacqueline Edmondson (ed.), ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.

An introductory source document and some fragmentary notes towards a diagnostic ecopedagogical critique of American... more An introductory source document and some fragmentary notes towards a diagnostic ecopedagogical critique of American music.

Students Lost in Digital Wasteland

by Eric Fox

After five years of teaching distracted and rigid students in my composition courses, I bolted for the woods to get my soul back.

Things Adorno Loved (and the Greatest of These Was Ives)?

by Joshua Busman

Completed under the direction of Felix Woerner, fall 2011

Signor Beneventano and Man Inspirited: A Symbolist Reading of Melville's "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!"

by Matthew Bardowell

Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 61.4 (Summer 2009)

"Individualism above all": black metal in American Writing

by Diarmuid Hester

forthcoming in 'Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness' 2012

Considers the emergence of a particularly American engagement with the genre of black metal (in music, art and... more Considers the emergence of a particularly American engagement with the genre of black metal (in music, art and writing) in the context of recent disillusionment with the United States' political establishment and the persistence of an American tradition of individualism.

Emerson and Eiseley: Two Religious Visions.

by Jonathan Weidenbaum

Found in Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley. Tom Lynch and Susan Maher, editors. Nebraska University Press.

“Orestes Brownson in Young America: Popular Books and the Fate of Catholic Criticism.” American Literary History 15 (2003): 443-470.

by James Emmett Ryan

Snow

by Benjamin DiZoglio

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"German Philosophy, 'American' Thought, and Defining Democracy in Antebellum Boston"

by Benjamin Park

MPhil Dissertation, Political Thought and Intellectual History, Cambridge University

This dissertation explores how various thinkers within the Transcendentalist movement received, adapted, and presented... more This dissertation explores how various thinkers within the Transcendentalist movement received, adapted, and presented German theology during the 1830s and 1840s. Specifically, it will address how the Transcendentalists’ introduction to and
promotion of a wide variety of European philosophies challenged what had been traditional American conceptions of philosophy, democracy, and American-ness. By placing America within the dialogue of nineteenth century European thought, the Transcendentalists were forcing citizens to reconsider key issues like morality, knowledge, and equality. To demonstrate the diversity and multiplicity within the movement, this dissertation will focus on different Transcendentalist thinkers in each chapter: when engaging their appropriations of German idealism, it will emphasize the role of Theodore Parker as influenced by German philosophers, specifically Friedrich Schleiermacher; with democratic reform, it will look at Ralph Waldo Emerson; with the question of American identity, Orestes Brownson will take the stage; and in the final chapter, a comparison will be made between two German-trained Bostonians, George Bancroft and Frederick Henry Hedge, who experienced similar German-based educations yet held and promoted drastically different views. In short, this dissertation examines the dynamic relationship between notions of “American thought,” “foreign philosophy,” and “democracy” in antebellum Boston.

Giving Emerson the Boot

by William Major

Co-authored with Bryan Sinche

Thoreau's Cell Phone Experiment

by William Major

The Chronicle of Higher Education

"some vital unseen presence": The Practice of Nature in Walt Whitman's Specimen Days

by William Major

Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE): 7.1 (2000): 79-96.