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Current Issue:
Special Issue: Re-Transcendentalizing the Transcendentalists
Re-Transcendentalizing the Transcendentalists (Introduction)
Daniel S. Malachuk
Emersonian Transcendentalism and the Invention of Religion(s) in the Nineteenth Century
Jan Stievermann
Margaret Fuller and the Alternative Transcendentalism
David M. Robinson
“Sacred Calling” in Nineteenth-Century Authorship: Wordsworth, Emerson, Thackeray
Günter Leypoldt
Emerson’s Temporalities: The Eternal Present vs. the Not Yet Present
Danielle Follett
Theodore Parker and the Problem of Criticism
Kenyon Gradert
The Sphinx at the Crossroads:Transcendentalism Meets the Anthropocene
Laura Dassow Walls