Having spent the Vigour of my Youth & Genius under the Opression of Sr Joshua & his Gang of Cunning Hired Knaves Without Employment & as much as could...
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French pantheistic philosopher, economist, pacifist, government official, and champion of socialism through various reviews and newspapers that he helped found.
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American author and moralist, a Congregationalist and, later, Unitarian clergyman. Known as the “apostle of Unitarianism,” Channing was a leading figure in the...
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William Blake's Universe, the new (free) exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, is a celebration of work by the Romantic artist, writer and...
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Christopher McCandless, American adventurer who died from starvation and possibly poisoning while camping alone on a remote trail in Alaska.
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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson was a writer and woman suffrage leader in the United States. Robinson was a mill operative for the Tremont Corporation at...
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In this review of Andrew Drummond's The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer (Verso Books, 2024), Paul Buhle explores how the influence...
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Thoreau is regarded as both a classic American writer and a cultural hero of his country. This opinion of his greatness stems from the power of his principal...
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Margaret Fuller was an American critic, teacher, and woman of letters whose efforts to civilize the taste and enrich the lives of her contemporaries make...
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Zach Gibson revisits cult novelist Marguerite Young's 1945 study “Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias.”
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