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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.

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.

People of Concord
People of Concord
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Brooks, Paul. The People of Concord; American Intellectuals and Their Timeless Ideas. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006. 239pp. Paperback

 

Reprint of Paul Brooks' 1990 work examining life in Concord, MA in 1845, during a cultural revolution that changed forever the hearts and minds of countless AMericans. This small New England town nourished some of the most progressive and influential thinkers of its time: Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, A. Bronson Alcott and his then 13 year old daughter, Louisa and many others. This book will transport you to the time of these extraordinary citizens and offers a fascinating look at the "Athens of America"
Historical Guide to Emerson
Historical Guide to Emerson
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Eden's Outcasts
Eden's Outcasts
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Eden's Outcasts