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- ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly
- ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly is a publication of Rhode Island University covering 19th century American literature and culture.
Most Recent Articles from ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly 
Introduction
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition, on 6 November 2003 the United States Mint released one of two new versions...
9/1/04 by Peter Bayers · More from publicationWest of Winthrop: landscape and language in the Washington territory
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, twenty-four years before his six-month tour of the West commenced. He traced a family line on his father's...
9/1/04 by Paul J. Lindholdt · More from publicationAt the frontier of precision and persuasion: the convergence of natural philosophy and national philosophy in John C. Fremont's 1842, 1843-44 Report and Map.
John C. Fremont introduces his 1842, 1843-44 Report and Map with a "Notice to the Reader" which raises immediately a number of issues critical to...
9/1/04 by Geneva M. Gano · More from publication"Singularly placed in scenes so cultivated": the frontier, the myth of westward progress, and a backwoods in the Mountain South
Charles Fenno Hoffman, traveling eastward in the early 1830s after having spent a winter across the Appalachian Mountains in the West, was pleased to...
9/1/04 by Katherine E. Ledford · More from publication"The ruin of a bygone geological empire": Clarence King and the place of the primitive in the evolution of American identity.
Men are born either catastrophists or uniformitarians. You may divide the human race into imaginative people who believe in all sorts of...
9/1/04 by Ann E. Lundberg · More from publicationRepresenting and self-mutilating the laboring male body: re-examining Rebecca Harding Davis's: Life in the Iron Mills
From the opening of Life in the Iron Mills, Rebecca Harding Davis uses descriptions of corporeality to separate Hugh Wolfe, her working-class...
6/1/04 by Caroline S. Miles · More from publication
