Includes bibliographical references (pages 135 - 147) and index.
Contents:
Universal education: American Romanticism and the institutions of education -- Intelligent sympathies: conversations and the institutionalization of Romantic education -- The problem of audience: nineteenth-century periodical culture and Romantic popular education -- Public intellectuals: the Romantic lecture, professionalization, and politics -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"American Romanticism, Education, and Social Reform argues that American Transcendentalism was an attempt to institutionalize and popularize Romantic literary practice. The Transcendentalists tried to make Romantic education "the generating idea of society itself," so self-reliance needed to become a cultural practice available to everyone"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.