Reviews

A Journey into the Transcendentalists’ New England

Ann Woodlief of the American Transcendentalism Website says “if you are a fan of any of the Transcendentalists, or even interested in the making of American thought and literature, then this is your book.”

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/criticism/feltonreview.html

Elissa Schappell of Vanity Fair gives A Journey into the Transcendentalist's New England the nod in June's "Hot Type"  section.

http://www.vanityfair.com/entertainment/books/articles

Travel book company, Get Lost Travel Books, says "This is an intriguing addition to the ever growing genre of literary guidebooks. I imagine that traveling with this book would infuse the places mentioned within with meaning that you just wouldn’t get from reading a mere commemorative plaque."

http://www.getlostbooks.com/p home.html

Carl F Gauze of ink19 says  "When standing in front of another ancient saltbox with a gift shop, this book can make the place come alive."

http://www.ink19.com/issues/july2006/printReviews/JourneyInto.html

Chris Bergeron of Metro West Daily News says " Anyone planning a trip through the region's literary past should pack R. Todd Felton's informative A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England"...

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/artsCulture/view.bg?articleid=135523

Jeanne Braham of New England Watershed magazine says " A Journey into Transcendentalists' New England immerses a reader in a time and place where intellectual debate was every bit as important as the Gross National Product."

The GoNOMAD Website says "the book charts the development of a movement that revolutionized American ideas about the artistic, spiritual, and natural worlds."

http://www.gonomad.com/market/0609/transcendentalists.html

David Eisenthal in the Eisenthal Report says " Felton focuses on the Massachusetts communities of Cambridge,Concord, and Amherst. He writes vividly of - and photographs beautifully - the streets and landscapes from which arose the intellectual ferment that was Transcendentilism."

http://davideisenthal.typepad.com/the_eisenthal_report/2006/10/a_journey_into_.html