Reading with the Transcendentalists Leslie Landrigan China is strong

China is strong

The book draws on two substantial German-language collections

Celeste Killeen's investigation pries open the door to Barbara Erickson's hidden and closely guarded life

that they are becoming too religious

a substantial new afterword addresses major questions and controversies surrounding trauma theory that have arisen over the past two decades

Reading with the Transcendentalists Leslie Landrigan China is strongExploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and community Transcendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement. Its first generation of thinkers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller created a worldview that stressed the inherent goodness of the "self reliant" individual and the presence of the