Resources

Selected Web Links

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Please contact Dr. Woodlief at awood@vcu.edu
if you have problems accessing any of them.

• "Transcendentalism," from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Chronology of American Transcendentalism.
• Overview of American Transcendentalism. Donna Campbell, Gonzago University.
  
• The Concord Magazine  (current and back articles on Concord area)
  
• Index to ESQ Articles, 1972-2000, Volumes 18-46.
• Transcendentalism: Bibliography.. Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Bartleby.
• Making of America. Presents many periodicals that the Transcendentalists read and wrote for, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New-England Magazine, and the North American Review. These can also be viewed as html files.
• Travel Guide to Transcendentalism. A Shepherd College class web project focused on the different places where the Transcendentalists lived.
• New England Transcendentalism. From the "sage-of-the-age" site.
• Nineteenth Century Precursors of the 1960s.
• Transcendentalism--American. Fields of Knowledge Infography.
• Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives. [Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcotts, Thoreau]

• Map of Concord. Zoomable. Created by Herbert Gleason, 1906. 19th Century American Literary, Historical, and Cultural Studies: Online Resources. Washington State University.
• Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals. Library of Congress.
• American Theory and Criticism: Nineteenth Century. John Allison, John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.
• People of Ideas during the 19th Century.
• "Phalanx on a Hill: Responses to Fourierism in the Transcendentalist Circle." William Hall Brock, PhD Dissertation, Loyola University Chicago, 1997.
• Women in America: 1820-1842.
• Bibliographical Essay on Anarchism and Feminism [Wendy McElroy]
• Fugitive Slave Act
• "Liquid Fire Within Me": Language, Self and Society in Transcendentalism and early Evangelicalism, 1820-1860 [UVa MA thesis by Ian Finseth]
• A Brief History of Nature and the American Consciousness [UVa Project]
• A Romantic Natural History. Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College.
• Concord, Mass in the Nineteenth Century [Donna Campbell's Timeline]
• Domestic Fiction, 1820-1850.
• Annexation in Texas. C. T. Neu, University of Texas, Austin.
• The U.S.-Mexican War. PBS.
  A History of the National Women's Rights Movement Compiled by Paulina W. Davis, 1871; this essay covers 1850-1870.
• Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention. Smithsonian Institution.
• The John Brown Story (the Valley of the Shadow Project)
• William Lloyd Garrison on the Death of John Brown.
• American Whig Party (1834-1856) The political background of Transcendentalism.
• Political Ferment Stirs the Nation  From An Outline of American History.
• George Ripley, Review of James Martineau's Rationale of Religious Inquiry (1836).
• The Brook Farm Community.
• "Brook Farm." from Years by Experience by Georgiana Bruce Kirby.
• Brook Farm: Course Materials by Jamie Hamilton, University of Louisville [Studies in Subcultures].

Resources on Transcendental Roots

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Good overview of German Idealism, Subjectivity, Berkeley, etc.
• Selections from Sampson Reed's "Observations on Growth of the Mind"
• Values for Emerson in the Swedenborg System (Kenneth Cameron)
• "Swedenborg's Influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson" by Barry Halterman.
• Writings of Emanual Swedenborg.
• East Meets West: Oriental Seeds in Occidental Soil. by Swami B. G. Narasingha and Satyaraja dasa (Steven Rosen).
• Selected quotes from Coleridge relevant to Nature.
• Resources on Samuel Taylor Coleridge from literaryhistory.com.

• "Ralph Waldo Emerson," from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Emerson in Concord: an Exhibition in Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Links to books and on-line articles on Emerson. [UUA Bookstore Site]
• The drop too much: Emerson's eccentric circle. Article by James W. Tuttleton, The New Criterion Online.
• :Still Ahead of His Time", Smithsonian Magazine, May 2003, site on Emerson.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Excellent overview of Emerson's life and works on-line, from A Student's History of American Literature by Edward Simmons.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson. Andreas Teuber, Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University.
• Robert Richardson's Emerson: The Mind on Fire  A review of this outstanding book on Emerson.
• RWE Influences. [RWE.org].
• A Tribute to Ralph Waldo Emerson [Roberto Piccoli, in English and Italian].
  
• Articles about Emerson's Writing. [Jone Johnson Lewis]
  
• Emerson's Philosophy of Education by Sanderson Beck.

• "Henry David Thoreau," from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• A Reading Group/Discussion Guide to Walden. Richard J. Schneider, to accompany Bill McKibben's Beacon Press edition of Walden.
• Henry David Thoreau  An overview of his life and works from A Student's History of American Literature by Edward Simmons.
• Transcendentalism and Thoreau's Circle. Writings from Concord: Henry David Thoreau in the Ward M. Canaday Center.
• Botanical Index to Thoreau's Journals. Ray Angelo.
• Thoreau's Pencils by John Leinhard.
• Thoreau and Self-Realization by Richard Amero.
• The "Domestic Air" of Wilderness: Henry Thoreau and Joe Polis in the Maine Woods by Tom Lynch [Weber Studies, 1997]
• Reflections on Walden After 150 Years. The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Site, 1995.
• Analysis and Notes on Walden. Ken Kifer.
• Walden Pond and Henry David Thoreau: Concord, Massachusetts.
  Picture and Information.
• The Walden Cabin Project. An "authentic" modern construction of Thoreau's cabin.
• Study of the Sediments of Walden Pond  How the sediments reveal the history of the pond.
• A Catalog of Thoreau's Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library .
• Thoreau's Lecturing Activities.
• Cafaro, Philip. "Thoreau on Science and System." Philosophy and the Environment (1998 Conference of Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy.)
• Walden CD (Ken Pederson) Hear this music inspired by Walden.
• "Henry Thoreau: His Character and Opinions" by Robert Louis Stevenson. A rather harsh and personal critique.
• "Henry D. Thoreau." John Burroughs. The Century, July 1882.
• Genesis of Walden and Structure of Walden. Donna Campbell, Gonzago University.

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