Clemens Spahr is lecturer of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.

Clemens Spahr has given us a fresh portrait of the Transcendentalists as social reformers who were grounded in education, and developed an array of original forms of instruction and conversation as the tools of social change. His remarkable book will deeply increase our recognition and appreciation of the impact of Transcendentalism.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Universal Education: American Romanticism and the Institutions of EducationChapter Two: Intelligent Sympathies: Conversations and the Institutionalization of Romantic EducationChapter Three: The Problem of Audience: Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture and Romantic Popular Education Chapter Four: Public Intellectuals: The Romantic Lecture, Professionalization, and PoliticsConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

Clemens Spahr is lecturer of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.

Clemens Spahr has given us a fresh portrait of the Transcendentalists as social reformers who were grounded in education, and developed an array of original forms of instruction and conversation as the tools of social change. His remarkable book will deeply increase our recognition and appreciation of the impact of Transcendentalism.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Universal Education: American Romanticism and the Institutions of EducationChapter Two: Intelligent Sympathies: Conversations and the Institutionalization of Romantic EducationChapter Three: The Problem of Audience: Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture and Romantic Popular Education Chapter Four: Public Intellectuals: The Romantic Lecture, Professionalization, and PoliticsConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

Clemens Spahr is lecturer of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.

Clemens Spahr has given us a fresh portrait of the Transcendentalists as social reformers who were grounded in education, and developed an array of original forms of instruction and conversation as the tools of social change. His remarkable book will deeply increase our recognition and appreciation of the impact of Transcendentalism.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Universal Education: American Romanticism and the Institutions of EducationChapter Two: Intelligent Sympathies: Conversations and the Institutionalization of Romantic EducationChapter Three: The Problem of Audience: Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture and Romantic Popular Education Chapter Four: Public Intellectuals: The Romantic Lecture, Professionalization, and PoliticsConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author