The Periodicals of American Transcendentalism

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• Chapter I Introduction 3
• Chapter II the Western Messenger and the Dial 17
• Chapter III Orestes A. Brownson and the Boston Quarterly Review 38
• Chapter IV the Present 83
• Chapter V the Harbinger 101
• Chapter VI the Spirit of the Age 132
• Chapter VII Elizabeth Peabody and Her Æsthetic Papers 143
• Chapter VIII the Massachusetts Quarterly Review 157
• Chapter IX the Dial (cincinnati) 194
• Chapter X the Radical 210
• Chapter XI 229
• Appendix Two Uncollected Emerson Items 255
• Index 257