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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, ...

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This 15th volume of "Studies in the American Renaissance" continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of scholarly articles, ranging from a study of Margaret Fuller as a teacher in Providence to the place of Walt Whitman in 19th-century textbooks, handbooks and anthologies.

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The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an eclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.

This book is the first-ever selected edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's letters--169 personal letters and eight letters written while Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American consul. Myerson carefully selected letters focusing on Hawthorne's relationship with famous people of the day: letters written to his wife, Sophia, letters describing everyday life in Salem, Boston, Concord, Britain, France, and Italy, letters in which Hawthorne comments on cont...

This book is the first-ever selected edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's letters--169 personal letters and eight letters written while Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American consul. Myerson carefully selected letters focusing on Hawthorne's relationship with famous people of the day: letters written to his wife, Sophia, letters describing everyday life in Salem, Boston, Concord, Britain, France, and Italy, letters in which Hawthorne comments on cont...

In 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public. Through these letters readers gained a new insight into the mind of this seminal figure in American literary and intellectual history. Now, for the first time, readers can find Emerson's best letters distilled in one volume. Disti...

(at)font-face ( font-family: "Times", )(at)font-face ( font-family: "Palatino", )p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal ( margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt, font-size: 12pt, font-family: "Times New Roman", )div.Section1 ( page: Section1, ) Focusing on actual publications "by" Whitman rather than those "about" him, Joel Myerson's painstakingly compiled supplement to his 1993" Walt Whitman: A Descriptive Bibliography" includes almost twenty years of ne...

This book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

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The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings such as A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his Journal and later writings. It also serves as a biographical guide, offerin...

Few American writers were as concerned with their public image as was Walt Whitman. He praised his own work in unsigned reviews, he included engravings or photographs of himself in numerous editions of his work, and he assisted in the writing of two biographies of himself. Whitman was also written about extensively by others throughout his lifetime. Whitman in His Own Time is a collection of these contemporary accounts of the "good gray poet"....

During the period from 1820 to 1860 American writers in New York and the South were concerned with breaking away from English themes and literary models, exploring the Americanness of their nations literature. The scope of their work was wide - they were novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, reformers, abolitionists, historians and scientists. They portrayed native peoples and life on the American frontier. They mined local history ...

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically...