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Selected Bibliography on Transcendentalism
The major bibliography (annotated) is Joel Myerson's The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. NY: MLA, 1984. For other works, especially on minor Transcendentalists, see Albanese, Catherine L. Corresponding Motion: Transcendental Religion And The New America. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1977. Asselineau, Roger. The Transcendentalist Constant in American Literature. NY: NYU Press, 1980. Barbour, Brian M. American Transcendentalism; an Anthology of Criticism. Notre Dame: UND Press,1973. Boller, Paul F. American Transcendentalism, 1830-1860: An Intellectual Inquiry. NY: Putnam, 1974. Buell, Lawrence. Literary Transcendentalism; Style and Vision in the American Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1973. Cameron, Kenneth W. Concord Harvest; Publications of the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature with Notes on its Successors and other Resources for Research in Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott and the Later Transcendentalists. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1970. _________. Transcendental Epilogue; Primary Materials for research in Emerson, Thoreau, Literary New England, the influence of German theology, and higher Biblical criticism. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1965. __________. Young Emerson's Transcendental Vision. An Exposition of his World View With an Analysis of the Structure, Backgrounds, and Meaning of Nature (1836). Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1971. Carlyle, Thomas. Heroes and Hero Worship. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., [No Date Given]. Carlyle, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Carlyle. Ed. H. D. Traill. 30 vols. London:Chapman and Hall, 1896-1899. [Centenary Edition]. Chai, Leon. The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. Christy, Arthur. The Orient in American Transcendentalism; a study of Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott. NY: Octagon Books, 1969 [1932, 1960]. Cooke, George Willis. An Historical and Biographical Introduction to Accompany The Dial. Two Volumes. NY: Russell and Russell, 1961. Cooke, George Willis. Memorabilia of the Transcendentalists in New England. 1902. Reprinted by Kenneth W. Cameron as one volume (Transcendental Books, 1973.) Emory, Elliot. Puritan Influences in American Literature. University of Illinois Press. London. 1979. Francis, Richard. Transcendental Utopias : Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997. ____________. "The Ideology of Brook Farm." Studies in the American Renaissance, edited by Joel Myerson. Boston: Twayne, 1977. Frothingham, O. B. Transcendentalism in New England, a History. Gloucester, Mass.: Smith, 1965. First published in 1876. Goddard, H. C. Studies in New England Transcendentalism. NY, Humanities P, 1969. Gohdes, C. L. The Periodicals of American Transcendentalism. Durham: Duke UP, 1931. Gura, Philip F., and Joel Myerson, eds. Critical Essays on American Transcendentalism. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982. Hansen, Olaf. Aesthetic Individualism and Practical Intellect. Princeton University: Princeton, 1990. Hunt, John. Pantheism and Christianity, 1970. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat P, 1970. Hutchison, William R. The Transcendentalist Ministers; Church Reform in the New England Renaissance. New Haven, Yale UP, 1959. Leighton, Walter. French Philosophers and New-England Transcendentalism. NY: Greenwood P, 1968. Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance. London: Oxford UP, 1941. Miller Perry. The Transcendentalists, an Anthology. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1960. Miller, Perry, editor. The American Transcendentalists: Their Prose and Poetry. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1957. Mott, Wesley T., editor. Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism. Westport, CN: Greenwood P, 1996. Myerson, Joel. The New England Transcendentalists and the Dial: a History of the Magazine and its Contributors. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1980. --- The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. NY: MLA, 1984. New, Eliza. The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry. University of Cambridge: New York, 1993. Pearce, Roy Harvey. The Continuity of American Poetry. Princeton University: Princeton, 1961.
Rockefeller, Steven C., and Elder, John C., editors. Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment is a Religious Issue. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. Rose, Anne. Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830-1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Santmire, H. Paul. Brother Earth: Nature, God, and Ecology in Time of Crisis. New York: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1970. Simon and Parsons, eds. Transcendentalism and its Legacy. Ann Arbor: UMich P, 1966. Steele, Jeffrey. The Representation of the Self in the American Renaissance. Chapel Hill: UNC P, 1987. Stoehr,Taylor.Nay-saying in Concord : Emerson, Alcott, and Thoreau. Hamden, CN: Archon Books, 1979. Vogel, Stanley M. German Literary Influences on the American Transcendentalists. 1955. Reprint.[Hamden, Conn.]: Archon Books, 1970. Welleck, Rene. Confrontations: Studies in the Intellectual and Literary Relations between Germany, England, and the United States during the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. Willoughby, L.A. The Romantic Movement in Germany. New York: Russell & Russell, 1930. Primary Academic Journals: ATQ. American Transcendental Quarterly. Print; from 1989-present abstracts and some articles are also on-line at InfoTrac [available in many academic libraries.]
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