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American Romanticism, Education, and Social Reform argues that American Transcendentalism was an attempt to institutionalize and popularize Romantic literary practice. The Transcendentalists tried to make Romantic education "the generating idea of society itself," so self-reliance needed to become a cultural practice available to everyone.
List of contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Universal Education: American Romanticism and the Institutions of Education
Chapter Two: Intelligent Sympathies: Conversations and the Institutionalization of Romantic Education
Chapter Three: The Problem of Audience: Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture and Romantic Popular Education
Chapter Four: Public Intellectuals: The Romantic Lecture, Professionalization, and Politics
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
By Clemens Spahr
Summary
American Romanticism, Education, and Social Reform argues that American Transcendentalism was an attempt to institutionalize and popularize Romantic literary practice. The Transcendentalists tried to make Romantic education “the generating idea of society itself,” so self-reliance needed to become a cultural practice available to everyone.
