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Brook Farm
Brook Farm
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Delano, Sterling F. Brook Farm, The Dark Side of Utopia Harvard University Press, 1st Edition, 2004. 428 pp. Hardbound.
This first comprehensive examination of the famous utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts reaveals a surprisingly grim side to paradise as the Brook Farmers faced relentless financial pressures a declining faith in their leaders, class antagonism, a lawsuit by Nathaniel Hawthorne and a devistating fire.
My Heart is a Large Kingdom
My Heart is a Large Kingdom
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Fuller, Margaret. My Heart is a Large Kingdom; Selected Letter of Margaret Fuller. Cornell University Press, 1st Edition, 2001. 336 pp. Hardbound.
Taken only from Fuller's manuscipts, this collection of letters gives new insight into all stages of her life as a great American Transcendentalist thinker, literary critic, translator of German literature, teacher, travel writer, feminist, revolutionary, wife and mother. Included in the collection are letters to Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Ripley, Emerson and Thoreau. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth.
Emerson's Antislavery Writings
Emerson's Antislavery Writings
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Emerson's Antislavery Writings. Edited by Len Gougeon and Joel Myerson. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995. 232 pp. Paperback.

This text includes eighteen of Emerson's writings (essays, letters, speeches, etc.) which together form a comprehensive study of Emerson's commitment to social reform.

Self-Reliance
Self-Reliance
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self Reliance and Other Essays. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1993. 117 pp. Paperback.

This slim and inexpensive volume contains seven of Emerson's most famous essays: "History," "Self-Reliance," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet," "Experience," and "The Divinity School Address."

Emerson: The Mind on Fire
Emerson: The Mind on Fire
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Richardson, Robert D. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 671 pp. Paperback.

Frontispiece by Barry Moser
This highly acclaimed biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson presents the writer and thinker as no other biography has.

The Transcendentalists
The Transcendentalists
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Miller, Perry (ed). The Transcendentalists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1950. 521 pp. Paperback.

This text is a comprehensive collection of writings from 107 Transcendentalists from throughout the movement.

Portable Emerson
Portable Emerson
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Portable Emerson. Edited by Carl Bode and Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1981. 668 pp. Paperback.

This impressive collection includes Emerson's most famous essays, his first book (Nature) in its entirety, 22 of his poems and several orations and biographical essays.

Concord Authors
Concord Authors
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Moore, Alex W., Jr. Concord Authors: Biographical Notes. Concord: Anaxagoras Publications, 1996. Booklet. 26 pp.

This handy booklet traces the lives of four of Concord's nineteenth century writers: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott. The timeline format clarifies the interconnectedness of these authors and their families.

Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth by Laura Dassow Walls
Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth
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Walls, Laura Dassow. Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth. NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. hardcover. 280pp.

This intellectual biography of Emerson embraces the idea that his work is based on, and promotes, scientific thought.

Emerson in His Own Time (Joel Myerson, Ronald Bosco)
Emerson in His Own Time
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Bosco, Ronald A. and Joel Myerson. eds. Emerson in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends and Associates. IA: University of Iowa Press, 2003.

This scholarly work offers first-hand accounts, contextual and historical background information and a chronology of Emerson's life.