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Righteous violence revolution, slavery, and the American renaissance / by Reynolds, Larry J. (Larry John), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Margaret Fuller's revolutionary example -- Emerson, guns, and bloodlust -- Douglass, insurrection, and the heroic slave -- Contemplation versus violence in Thoreau's world -- Violent virtue and Alcott's moods -- Pacifism, savagery, and Hawthorne's last romances -- The revolutionary times of Melville's Billy Budd.…”
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John Burroughs and the place of nature by Warren, James Perrin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the power of place -- Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer's place --Whitman land : John Burroughs's pastoral criticism -- Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine -- Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination -- The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist -- The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century -- Conclusion : the place of elegy.…”
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John Burroughs and the place of nature by Warren, James Perrin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the power of place -- Great neighbors : Emerson, Thoreau, and the writer's place --Whitman land : John Burroughs's pastoral criticism -- Pastoral illustration : Burroughs, Muir, and the Century magazine -- Landscapes beginning to be born : Alaska and the pictorial imagination -- The "best of places" : Roosevelt as literary naturalist -- The divine abyss : Burroughs and Muir in the new century -- Conclusion : the place of elegy.…”
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Antebellum Posthuman : Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / by Ellis, Cristin, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Douglass's animals : racial science and the problem of human equality -- 2. Thoreau's seeds : evolution and the problem of human agency -- 3. …”
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Antebellum Posthuman : Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / by Ellis, Cristin, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Douglass's animals : racial science and the problem of human equality -- 2. Thoreau's seeds : evolution and the problem of human agency -- 3. …”
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Lincoln's defense of politics the public man and his opponents in the crisis over slavery / by Schneider, Thomas E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Calhoun : the politics of interest -- George Fitzhugh : the turn to history -- The attack on Locke -- Henry David Thoreau : the question of political engagement -- William Lloyd Garrison : from disunionist to Lincoln emancipationist -- Frederick Douglass : antislavery constitutionalism and the problem of consent -- Freedom, political and economic -- Between legalism and the higher law -- Lincoln's defense of politics.…”
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Lincoln's defense of politics the public man and his opponents in the crisis over slavery / by Schneider, Thomas E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Calhoun : the politics of interest -- George Fitzhugh : the turn to history -- The attack on Locke -- Henry David Thoreau : the question of political engagement -- William Lloyd Garrison : from disunionist to Lincoln emancipationist -- Frederick Douglass : antislavery constitutionalism and the problem of consent -- Freedom, political and economic -- Between legalism and the higher law -- Lincoln's defense of politics.…”
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Voyages of the self pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / by Novak, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing -- Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self -- Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land -- Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self -- Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete -- Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self -- Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self.…”
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The peculiar life of Sundays by Miller, Stephen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- Sunday now : sacred and profane.…”
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The peculiar life of Sundays by Miller, Stephen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- Sunday now : sacred and profane.…”
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Voyages of the self pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / by Novak, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing -- Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self -- Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land -- Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self -- Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete -- Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self -- Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self.…”
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Declaring his genius Oscar Wilde in North America / by Morris, Roy, Jr

Table of Contents: “…Too too utterly utter -- More wonderful than Dickens -- Those who dawnce don't dine -- What would Thoreau have said to my hatbox? -- No well-behaved river ought to act this way -- A very italy, without its art -- Don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his best -- You should have seen it before the war -- The Oscar of the first period is dead.…”
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Declaring his genius Oscar Wilde in North America / by Morris, Roy, Jr

Table of Contents: “…Too too utterly utter -- More wonderful than Dickens -- Those who dawnce don't dine -- What would Thoreau have said to my hatbox? -- No well-behaved river ought to act this way -- A very italy, without its art -- Don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his best -- You should have seen it before the war -- The Oscar of the first period is dead.…”
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Nature in American philosophy

Table of Contents: “…The colors of the spirit : Emerson and Thoreau on nature and the self / Russell B. Goodman -- The world beyond our mountains : nature in the philosophy of Josiah Royce / John Clendenning -- Sense-critical realism : a transcendental-pragmatic interpretation of C.S. …”
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Earth sound earth signal energies and earth magnitude in the arts / by Kahn, Douglas, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit.…”
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Nature in American philosophy

Table of Contents: “…The colors of the spirit : Emerson and Thoreau on nature and the self / Russell B. Goodman -- The world beyond our mountains : nature in the philosophy of Josiah Royce / John Clendenning -- Sense-critical realism : a transcendental-pragmatic interpretation of C.S. …”
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Earth sound earth signal energies and earth magnitude in the arts / by Kahn, Douglas, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit.…”
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A nation of religions the politics of pluralism in multireligious America /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Stephen Prothero -- Isolate, insulate, assimilate : attitudes of mosque leaders toward America / Ihsan Bagby -- Progressive Islam in America / Omid Safi -- From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 : lessons from the internment of Japanese American Buddhists / Duncan Ryûken Williams -- Reproducing Vietnam in America : San Jose's perfect harmony temple / Hien Duc Do -- Tibetan Buddhism in America : reinforcing the pluralism of the sacred canopy / Robert A.F. Thurman -- Mr. President, why do you exclude us from your prayers? …”
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Republic of words The Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / by Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. -- James and Annie Fields: the business of hospitality -- Harriet Beecher Stowe tests the magazine -- Battle of the books -- Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and a changing magazine -- William Dean Howells: democracy at work -- John Greenleaf Whittier's seventieth birthday -- Bret Harte to the lions -- Straddling The Atlantic: Henry James -- Clarence King, scholar-adventurer -- The gilded eighties -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, guardian at the gate -- In the wake of Louis Agassiz -- A magazine in decline and ascension -- From the far East to Mars: Lafcadio Hearn and Percival Lowell -- Booker T. …”
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Republic of words The Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / by Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. -- James and Annie Fields: the business of hospitality -- Harriet Beecher Stowe tests the magazine -- Battle of the books -- Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and a changing magazine -- William Dean Howells: democracy at work -- John Greenleaf Whittier's seventieth birthday -- Bret Harte to the lions -- Straddling The Atlantic: Henry James -- Clarence King, scholar-adventurer -- The gilded eighties -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, guardian at the gate -- In the wake of Louis Agassiz -- A magazine in decline and ascension -- From the far East to Mars: Lafcadio Hearn and Percival Lowell -- Booker T. …”
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