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Emerson
Bibliography Books -----. A historical guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Joel Myerson. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. ---------. The Emerson dilemma : essays on Emerson and social reform / edited by T. Gregory Garvey. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2001. ---------. Three prophets of religious liberalism : Channing, Emerson, Parker / introduced by Conrad Wright. Edition: 2nd ed. Boston : Unitarian Universalist Association, 1986. Bauerlein, Mark. The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief. Duke, 1997. [Includes Emerson in an exposition of the epistemology of pragmatism.] Cadava, Eduardo. Emerson and the Climates of History. Stanford, 1997. [Emerson's rhetoric of nature and climate in his engagement with the politics of antislavery.] Cameron, Kenneth Walter, 1908- Emerson's philosophic path to a vocation / by Kenneth Walter Cameron. Hartford : Transcendental Books, c1996. Colacurcio, Michael J. Doctrine and Difference: Essays in the Literature of New England. Routledge, 1997. [Includes reprinted chapters on Emerson and George Herbert and on the Divinity School Address.] Covici, Pascal, Jr. Humor and Revelation in American Literature: The Puritan Connection. Missouri, 1997. [While not necessarily funny, Emerson jolts readers into a a new awareness of the world.*] Dorrien, Gary J. The making of American liberal theology : imagining progressive religion, 1805-1900 / Gary Dorrien. Variant-Title: American liberal theology Variant-: Imagining progressive religion, 1805-1900 Edition: 1st ed. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2001. Edwards, Rem Blanchard. A return to moral and religious philosophy in early America / Rem B. Edwards. Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, c1982. Engstrom, Sallee Fox. The Infinitude of the Private Man: Emerson's Presence in Western New York, 1851-1861. Peter Lang, 1997. [Emerson's articulation of social reform in his lectures of the 1850s.] Howe, Daniel Walker. Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. Harvard, 1997. [The development of the concept of self-construction or self-culture in America.] Hudnut, Robert K. The aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson : the materials and methods of his poetry / Robert K. Hudnut. Lewiston : E. Mellen Press, c1996. Jay, Paul. Contingency Blues: The Search for Foundations in American Criticism. Wisconsin, 1997. [Includes Emerson in a pragmatist tradition which has attempted to respond to the contingent nature of knowledge.] Kazin, Alfred. God & the American Writer. Knopf, 1997. [Contains a chapter on "Emerson and the Moral Sentiment: We Are as Gods."*] Makarushka, Irena S. M. (Irena Sophia Maria) Religious imagination and language in Emerson and Nietzsche / Irena S.M. Makarushka. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994. Masterson, Kenneth. A contrast of the orthodox Christian and the Emersonian view of the nature of man / by Kenneth Masterson. 1962. Patterson, Anita Haya. From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest. Oxford, 1997. [Emerson's political thought, and its influence on W. E. B. DuBois and Martin Luther King, Jr.] Smithline, Arnold. Natural religion in American literature. New Haven, College & University Press [1966] Versluis, Arthur. The Hermetic Book of Nature: An American Revolution in Consciousness. Grail, 1997. [Hermetic influences on Nature.*] Warner, Nicholas O. Spirits of America: Intoxication in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Oklahoma, 1997. [Contains a chapter on "God's Wine and Devil's Wine: Intoxication in Emerson."*] Articles Albrecht, James M. "'The Sun Were Insipid, If the Universe Were Not Opaque': The Ethics of Action, Power, and Belief in Emerson, Nietzsche, and James." ESQ 43 (1997): 113-58. [Nietzsche and William James as important intellectual heirs of Emerson.] Buell, Lawrence. "Emerson's Fate." Emersonian Circles, 11-28. [The growing significance of "Fate" in the Emerson canon.] Conant, James. "Emerson as Educator." ESQ 43 (1997): 181-206. [The problem of the perfected self in Emerson and Nietzsche.] Deese, Helen R. "'A Liberal Education': Caroline Healey Dall and Emerson." Emersonian Circles, 237-60. [Dall's friendship with Emerson and her influence on his view of women's rights.] Friedl, Herwig. "Fate, Power, and History in Emerson and Nietzsche." ESQ 43 (1997): 267-93. [Emerson and Nietzsche as initiators of a new era in Western philosophy, emphasizing Emerson's profound impact on Nietzsche.] Garvey, T. Gregory. "Mediating Citizenship: Emerson, The Cherokee Removals, and the Rhetoric of Nationalism." CentennialR 41 (1997): 461-69. [Emerson's use of nationalism to protest the Cherokee Removals.] Goodman, Russell B. "Moral Perfectionism and Democracy: Emerson, Nietzsche, Cavell." ESQ 43 (1997): 159-80. [Emerson and Nietzsche's responses to the problem of perfectionism in democratic theory.] Gordis, Lisa M. "Consecrating a Rebellion: Emerson's Divinity School Address, David Friedrich Strauss, and the Historical Jesus." JUUH 24 (1997): 1-16. [Strauss's influence on Emerson's Christology.] Jensen, Tim. "'Their own thought in motley . . . ': Emerson's Divinity School Address and Henry Ware Jr.'s Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching." JUUH 24 (1997): 17-30. [The Divinity School Address as part of a larger Unitarian effort to revitalize preaching, exemplified by Ware.] Kronick, John G. "Repetition and Mimesis from Nietzsche to Emerson; or, How the World Became a Fable." ESQ 43 (1997): 241-65. [The "disinstallation of the subject" in Emerson and Nietzsche.] Parkes, Graham. "'Floods of Life' around 'Granite of Fate': Emerson and Nietzsche as Thinkers of Nature." ESQ 43 (1997): 207-40. [Emerson and Nietzsche's conceptions of the natural world.] Richardson, Joan. "Emerson's Sound Effects." Raritan 16 (1997): 83-101. [Emerson's acute sensitivity to voice and its effect on his work.] Richardson, Robert D., Jr. "Liberal Platonism and Transcendentalism: Shaftesbury, Schleiermacher, Emerson." Symbiosis 1 (1997): 1-20. [Connects Emerson with a tradition of "Liberal Platonism," exemplified in Shaftesbury, Schleiermacher, Whitehead and others.] Shapiro, Gary. "The Metaphysics of Presents: Nietzsche's Gift, the Debt to Emerson, Heidegger's Values." The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity, ed. Alan D. Schrift, 274-91. Routledge, 1997. [The concept of the gift in Emerson and Nietzsche.] Van Cromphout, Gustaaf. "Areteic Ethics: Emerson and Nietzsche on Pity, Friendship, and Love." ESQ 43 (1997): 95-112. [Emerson and Nietzsche as proponents of an "areteic" ethic.] Zayana, Mohamed. "Tarrying with Praxis: Emerson's Theory of Action." Tropiques: Revue Trimsetrielle Trilingue 7 (1997): 105-82. [Discusses Emerson's idealistic thought.*] |