Transcendentalism: Literary Criticism
General Literary Criticism
On Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book Reviews
- Brown, Amy Belding. Mr. Emerson's Wife. Reviewed by Ann Woodlief.
- Crocitto, Frank. Emphatically Emerson. Reviewed by Ann Woodlief.
 Baker, Carlos. Emerson Among the Eccentrics. Reviewed by James W. Tuttleton, The New Criterion Online.
- Leary, Lewis. Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Interpretive Essay. Reviewed by Ann Woodlief, Southern Humanities Review.
- Lopez, Michael. Emerson and Power: Creative Antagonism in the Nineteenth Century.
- McMillin, T. S. Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature of Reading.. Reviewed by Ann Woodlief.
- Myerson, Joel, ed. A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Reviewed by C. A. Cavanaugh, Rocky Mountain Review.
- Porte, Joel and Saundra Morris. The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Studies Today Online.
- Richardson, Robert Jr. Emerson: The Mind on Fire
- Reviews and price comparisons of Emerson books.
On Henry David Thoreau
- Excursions by Henry David Thoreau. Reviewed by Ann Woodlief.
- Bibliography of selected literary criticism on Thoreau
- Bibliography of selected literary criticism on Walden
- "Man Thinking About Nature: The Evolution of the Poet's Form and Function in the Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1852", Honors thesis by S. H. Bagley.
- Thoreau and the Tradition of the Active Mind. Martin Bickman, University of Colorado.
- Thoreau and Self-Realization by Richard Amero
- The Influence of Theories of Rhetoric on Thoreau by Ann Woodlief (Thoreau Journal Quarterly, 1975).
- Thoreau and Tao by David Ch'en.
- CONTACT! CONTACT! Up Katahdin with Thoreau. David Rothenberg.
- Introduction. Henry Thoreau: The Natural History Essays. Robert Sattlemeyer.
- Passage to Walden. Reginald Cook.
- Thoreau. Henry Seidel Canby.
- Five Ways of Looking at Walden. Walter Harding. Thoreau Institute.
- Castles
Made of Sand: Thoreau on the Seashore. Leila Hatch, Yale.
- Civil
and Uncivil Disobedience,Pierre Lemieux.
- Transcendental Ethos: A Study of Thoreau’s Social Philosophy and Its Consistency in Relation to Antebellum ReformM. Michael J. Frederick, Harvard thesis, 1998. Thoreau Institute.
- A Treatise on Life: The Critics and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Margaret Taliaferro, VCU, 1984.
- Excerpts from Thoreau's Redemptive Imagination on "Walking" by Frederick Garber.
- Words and Seeds: Henry David Thoreau and the Language of Investigation by Charles Bradford (Louisiana Scholar’s College Senior Thesis, 1999)
- Thoreau and the Indian in "The Allegash and East Branch" (The Maine Woods). Lee Gentry, VCU, 1999.
- Thoreau and Science by Robert Richardson.
- The "Domestic Air" of Wilderness: Henry Thoreau and Joe Polis in the Maine Woods by Tom Lynch [Weber Studies, 1997]
Book Reviews
On Amos Bronson Alcott
Bronson Alcott's Experiment in Practical Transcendentalism. John Crouch, Brown University.
On Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller: Performing Civic Equality.Rebecca Rix, Reed College, 1998.
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