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Born in May 25, 1803 / Died in April 27, 1882 / United States / English

Furtherreading

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Bibliographies:

  • Joel Myerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982).
  • Robert E. Burkholder and Myerson, "Ralph Waldo Emerson," in The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism, edited by Myerson (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1984), pp. 135-166.
  • Burkholder and Myerson, Emerson: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985).
  • Burkholder and Myerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1980-1991 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994).

Biographies:

  • Moncure Daniel Conway, Emerson at Home and Abroad (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882).
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884).
  • David Greene Haskins, Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Maternal Ancestors (Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1886).
  • James Elliot Cabot, A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2 volumes (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1887).
  • Edward Waldo Emerson, Emerson in Concord (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1889).
  • O. W. Firkins, Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915).
  • Denton J. Snider, A Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson (St. Louis: William Harvey Miner, 1921).
  • Ralph L. Rusk, The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (New York: Scribners, 1949).
  • Henry F. Pommer, Emerson's First Marriage (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967).
  • Gay Wilson Allen, Waldo Emerson: A Biography (New York: Viking, 1981).
  • John McAleer, Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984).
  • Evelyn Barish, Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).
  • Albert J. von Frank, An Emerson Chronology (New York: G. K. Hall, 1994).
  • Robert D. Richardson Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

References:

  • Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent (New York: Routledge, 1993).
  • Edmund G. Berry, Emerson's Plutarch (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961).
  • Jonathan Bishop, Emerson on the Soul (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964).
  • Lawrence Buell, Literary Transcendentalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1973).
  • Stanley Cavell, Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
  • Mary Kupiec Cayton, Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
  • John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays (New York: Scribners, 1898).
  • Julie Ellison, Emerson's Romantic Style (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).
  • Charles Feidelson Jr., Symbolism and American Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961).
  • Maurice Gonnaud, Individu et societe dans l'oeuvre de Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essai de biographie spirituelle (Paris, 1964); translated by Lawrence Rosenwald as An Uneasy Solitude: Individual and Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).
  • Len Gougeon, Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990).
  • Kenneth Marc Harris, Carlyle and Emerson: Their Long Debate (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978).
  • Alan D. Hodder, Emerson's Rhetoric of Revelation: Nature, the Reader, and the Apocalypse Within (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989).
  • Vivian C. Hopkins, Spires of Form: A Study of Emerson's Aesthetic Theory (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951).
  • Michael Lopez, Emerson and Power: Creative Antagonism in the Nineteenth Century (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996).
  • Lopez, ed., Emerson/Nietzsche, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 43 (1998).
  • F. O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1941).
  • John Michael, Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988).
  • Wesley T. Mott, "The Strains of Eloquence": Emerson and His Sermons (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989).
  • Mott and Robert E. Burkholder, eds., Emersonian Circles: Essays in Honor of Joel Myerson (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1997).
  • Joel Myerson, ed., A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
  • Philip L. Nicoloff, Emerson on Race and History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961).
  • Richard R. O'Keefe, Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995).
  • B. L. Packer, Emerson's Fall: A New Interpretation of the Major Essays (New York: Continuum, 1982).
  • Sherman Paul, Emerson's Angle of Vision: Man and Nature in the American Experience (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1952).
  • Joel Porte, Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1966).
  • Porte, Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Time (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979; revised, 1988).
  • Porte and Saundra Morris, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
  • David Porter, Emerson and Literary Change (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978).
  • Susan L. Roberson, Emerson in His Sermons: A Man-Made Self (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995).
  • David M. Robinson, Apostle of Culture: Emerson as Preacher Lecturer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982).
  • Robinson, Emerson and The Conduct of Life (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  • Lawrence Rosenwald, Emerson and the Art of the Diary (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
  • F. B. Sanborn, ed., The Genius and Character of Emerson (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1885).
  • Merton M. Sealts, Jr., Emerson on the Scholar (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992).
  • Sealts, and Alfred R. Ferguson, eds., Emerson's Nature--Origin, Growth, Meaning (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969; revised, 1979).
  • Richard F. Teichgraeber, Sublime Thoughts/Penny Wisdom: Situating Emerson and Thoreau in the American Market (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
  • Gustaaf Van Cromphout, Emerson's Ethics (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999).
  • Van Cromphout, Emerson's Modernity and the Example of Goethe (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990).
  • Albert J. von Frank, The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998).
  • Hyatt Waggoner, Emerson as Poet (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974).
  • Stephen E. Whicher, Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953).
  • R. A. Yoder, Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).
  • Charles L. Young, Emerson's Montaigne (New York: Macmillan, 1941).
  • Christina Zwarg, Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995).