Fall Research Paper: Book Synopsis.

For my book synopsis, I chose "Dead Letters to the New World: Melville, Emerson and American Transcendentalism", a book of literary criticism by Michael McLoughlin. The author studies in depth the emergence of Transcendentalism as a school of philosophy in America in the 19th century, and focuses in particular on Ralph Waldo Emerson, as a leader of the movement, and author Herman Melville, whose relationship with various people in the Transcendentalist movement heavily influenced his writings.
McLoughlin's main purpose in writing is to create an exhaustive study of the relationship between…