Transcendentalism: A ReaderJoel Myerson Oxford University Press, 2000 M12 14 - 752 pages The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism provided a springboard for the first distinctly American forays into intellectual culture: religion and religious reform, philosophy, literature, ecology, and spiritualism. This new collection, edited by eminent American literature scholar Joel Myerson, is the first anthology of the period to appear in over fifty years. Transcendentalism: A Reader draws together in their entirety the essential writings of the Transcendentalist group during its most active period, 1836-1844. It includes the major publications of the Dial, the writings on democratic and social reform, the early poetry, nature writings, and all of Emerson's major essays, as well as an informative introduction and annotations by Myerson. |
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Sampson Reed Genius 1821 published 1849 | 21 |
Sampson Reed Observations on the Growth of the Mind 1826 | 26 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Sermon CXXI 17 July 1831 | 62 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Lords Supper Sermon CLXII 9 September 1832 | 68 |
Frederic Henry Hedge Coleridges Literary Character March 1833 | 78 |
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody from Explanatory Preface Record of a School 1836 | 97 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature 1836 | 124 |
William Henry Channing Introduction to the Present September 1843 | 430 |
Charles Lane and A Bronson Alcott The Consociate Family Life 8 September 1843 | 435 |
Henry David Thoreau A Winter Walk October 1843 | 442 |
Charles Lane Brook Farm January 1844 | 456 |
Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education Constitution 1844 | 461 |
Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education from Constitution 2d ed 1844 | 470 |
Margaret Fuller New Years Day 28 December 1844 | 473 |
George Ripley Prospectus and Introductory Notice for the Harbinger 14 June 1845 | 478 |
Andrews Norton Letter to the Editor 5 November 1836 | 160 |
George Ripley from Letter to the Editor 9 November 1836 | 162 |
A Bronson Alcott The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture 1836 | 167 |
A Bronson Alcott from Conversations with Children on the Gospels 18361837 | 181 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar 1837 | 195 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Introductory 6 December 1837 to Human Culture lecture series | 212 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Letter to Martin Van Buren 14 May 1838 | 226 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Divinity School Address 1838 | 230 |
Andrews Norton The New School in Literature and Religion 27 August 1838 | 246 |
Henry Ware Jr The Personality of the Deity 1838 | 250 |
Levi Blodgett Theodore Parker The Previous Question between Mr Andrews Norton and His Alumni 1840 | 260 |
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Woman from The Conversations of Margaret Fuller Spring 1840 | 280 |
Prospectus for The Dial July 1840 | 289 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Editors to the Reader July 1840 | 291 |
Margaret Fuller A Short Essay on Critics July 1840 | 294 |
A Bronson Alcott from Orphic Sayings July 1840 and other dates | 300 |
George Ripley letter to Emerson 9 November 1840 and Emerson letter to Ripley 15 December 1840 | 307 |
Sophia Ripley Woman January 1841 | 314 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson SelfReliance 1841 | 318 |
Theodore Parker A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Christianity 1841 | 340 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Transcendentalist 23 December 1841 | 366 |
Lidian Jackson Emerson Transcendental Bible 1841? | 381 |
Margaret Fuller The Great Lawsuit Man versus Men Woman versus Women July 1843 | 383 |
A Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane Fruitlands July 1843 | 428 |
Margaret Fuller The Wrongs of American Women The Duty of American Women 30 September 1845 | 484 |
William Ellery Channing | 492 |
Christopher Pearse Cranch | 494 |
John Sullivan Dwight | 498 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 499 |
Margaret Fuller | 517 |
Frederic Henry Hedge Questionings | 523 |
Ellen Sturgis Hooper | 524 |
Henry David Thoreau | 525 |
Jones Very | 531 |
Margaret Fuller Things and Thoughts in Europe No XVIII 1 January 1848 | 541 |
Henry David Thoreau Resistance to Civil Government 1849 | 546 |
Theodore Parker A Sermon of the Public Function of Woman 1853 | 566 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Seventh of March Speech on the Fugitive Slave Law 7 March 1854 | 586 |
Henry David Thoreau Slavery in Massachusetts 4 July 1854 | 602 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Address at the Womans Rights Convention 20 September 1855 | 615 |
Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown 30 October 1859 | 628 |
Theodore Parker from Theodore Parkers Experience as a Minister 1859 | 648 |
James Freeman Clarke from Cambridge 1891 | 670 |
Caroline Dall from Transcendentalism in New England 1895 | 674 |
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affections Alcott Andrews Norton beauty become believe better Boston Brook Farm called character Christ Christianity Christopher Pearse Cranch church common divine doctrine duty earth Elizabeth Palmer Peabody eternal evil existence fact faith feel Fuller genius George Ripley give heart heaven Henry David Thoreau hope human idea ideal individual influence inspiration intellectual James Freeman Clarke Jesus Joel Myerson labor light live look means mind miracles moral nature never objects perfect persons philosopher poet poetry present principles pure Ralph Waldo Emerson reason reform relation religion religious scholars sense sentiment slave slavery society soul speak spirit teach Theodore Parker theology things Thoreau thou thought Transcendentalism Transcendentalists true truth Unitarian University Press virtue whole William Ellery Channing William Henry Channing wise wish woman women words writing