Bulkingtonians

For many Americanists, Herman Melville was hardly a Transcendentalist*; but when he sketched the character of Bulkington in Moby-Dick, ch. 23, he invented (consciously or not) the figure of the Transgressive Transcendentalist.

*For a compelling opposing view, see Perry Miller's essay "Melville and Transcendentalism" in Nature's Nation.