Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts. Edited by Charles Capper and Conrad Edick Wright. Massachusetts Historical Society / Northeastern University Press, 1999, 639 pp. A collection of 20 essays. Contributors are: David M. Robinson, Dean Grodzins, Robert D. Richardson Jr., Barbara Packer, Nina Baym, Alan D. Hodder, John Patrick Diggins, Robert A. Gross, David S. Reynolds, Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray, Albert J. von Frank, Phyllis Cole, Carl J. Guarneri, Philip F. Gura, Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Helen R. Deese, Nancy Stula, Michael Broyles, Denise Von Glahn, and Lawrence Buell. This copy is lightly used, with some highlighting in the text. Has some light foxing on the top of the book block. Otherwise, this is a good and worthy book.