A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Myerson is Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of Southern Carolina. He edited Studies in the American Renaissance (1977-1996) and is former president of the Association for Documentary Editing, the Thoreau Society, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. He was published numerous books on Emerson and his times.

Chief among the accomplishments of A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson is the book's effective relocation of Emerson within the major literary, historical, and cultural contexts of nineteenth-century American life. Edited by Joel Myerso?

• Introduction ; Chronologies ; Illustrations ; Abbreviations ; We Fine What We Seek: Thoughts Toward a Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson ; The Age of the First Person Singular: Emerson and Individualism ; Emerson, Nature, and Natural Science ; Emerson and Religion ; Emerson and Antislavery ; Emerson in the Context of the Woman's Rights Movement ; Contributors ; Index