Democratic Voices and Vistas

About the Book

Discussion of the careers and writings of the Transcendentalists, Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Fuller, and Parker; the Brahmins, Holmes, Longfellow, and Lowell; and other major 19th Century American Writers, including Poe, Whittier, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Parkman, Dana, Lanier, and many others.

About the Author

Darrel Abel is a Purdue University Emeritus Professor of English. He was educated at the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan. Besides his career at Purdue he spent a year each at Freiburg University as a Fulbright professor and at the University of Saskatchewan as a visiting professor. He is the author of many articles and several books on American Literature.