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Interrogating the movement's alleged atheistic underpinnings, David Faflik contends that transcendentalism reconstituted the religious sensibilities of 1830s and 1840s New England, producing a dynamic and complex array of beliefs and behaviours that cannot be categorized as either religious or non-religious.
“Faflik has read widely, and intelligently, in both manuscripts and little-known periodicals to establish a wider interpretation of transcendentalism. This is a major advance in the field.”- David M. Robinson, author of Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism
David Faflik is professor of English at the University of Rhode Island and author of Melville and the Question of Meaning.