Transatlantic Transcendentalism

Samantha Harvey is an assistant professor of English Literature at Boise State University. She is the editor of Coleridge’s Responses: Coleridge on Nature and Vision (London: Continuum, 2008).

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1: Transatlantic Transcendentalism; 2: Coleridge and Boston Transcendentalism; Coleridge's American Interpreters; James Marsh and the American Aids to Reflection; “Germanicus”: Frederick Henry Hedge; 3: Nature: Philosophy and “The Riddle of the World”; Coleridge’s Dynamic Philosophy; Emerson’s First Philosophy; 4: The Landing Place: “Distinguishing without Dividing” and Coleridge’s Method; Reason and Understanding; Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata; Principles of Method: “The Self-Unraveling Clue”; Method and the Romantic Triad; 5: Humanity: “Art is the Mediatress, the Reconciliator of Man and Nature”; Romantic Triad and the “Book of Nature”; The Poet-Prophet; Imagination: The “synthetic and magical power”; 6: Spirit: “An Influx of the Divine Mind”; Revelation; Creation; Evolution; Panentheism; Faith: “The Completing KEY-STONE”; 7: Emerson’s Nature: Coleridge’s Method and the Romantic Triad; Nature Encapsulated: The Introduction and First Chapter; The Domain of the Understanding: “Commodity” and “Beauty”; The Bridging Chapters: “Language” and “Discipline”; Idealism and Beyond: The Final Chapters; Conclusion: Imagining “A new heaven and a new earth” in Literature; 8: Coleridge and Vermont Transcendentalism; A Coleridgean Curriculum; Marsh’s Continuing Legacy; H. A. P. Torrey and John Dewey; Dewey, Coleridge’s Method, and Pragmatism; “Philosophy and American National Life”; “James Marsh and American Philosophy”; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

Harvey’s account is the clearest and most detailed yet.