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Works gathered across authors around a movement, a period or a question.

American Pragmatism3 works

Peirce and William James on belief, truth and the practical difference that ideas make.

The American Renaissance4 works

Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Melville: the generation of American writers who came of age in the 1840s and 1850s.

Early Modern Philosophy5 works

Francis Bacon and David Hume on knowledge, experience and human nature.

East and West3 works

Sir William Jones and Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, European scholars who brought Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit learning to Western readers.

The Romantic Critics3 works

Shelley and Hazlitt on poetry, drama and the imagination.

Victorian Sages4 works

Carlyle and Arnold on society, culture and the spirit of the age.