Selected Works

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Fuller, Margaret; Rowe, John Carlos; Lauter, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780395980750
• ISBN10: 0395980755
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-25
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This volume in the New Riverside Editions series is the first collection to combine the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, thereby demonstrating the importance of both men's and women's contributions to American Transcendentalism. Edited and with an illuminating introduction by John Carlos Rowe (University of California-Irvine), this volume contains the complete text of Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century, a selection of her dispatches from Europe, a generous collection of Emerson's essays (including Nature, "Self-Reliance," "The Poet," and many others), and a selection of Emerson's poems. The essays and poems contained in this volume focus on debates and conflicts among the transcendentalists about such questions as abolition, women's rights, westward expansion, and industrialization. The selections emphasize the political and cultural commitments of Emerson and Fuller in their own time. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

About This Series	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
A Note on the Texts	p. 19
Selected Essays	p. 21
Nature (1836)	p. 23
"The American Scholar" (1837)	p. 58
"Letter to Martin Van Buren" (April 23, 1838)	p. 74
"An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College" (July 15, 1838)	p. 78
"Self-Reliance" (1841)	p. 93
"Circles" (1841)	p. 115
"Man the Reformer" (January 25, 1841)	p. 125
"The Transcendentalist" (January, 1842)	p. 139
"Politics" (1844)	p. 154
"Experience" (1844)	p. 166
"The Poet" (1844)	p. 186
"An Address ... on ... the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies" (August 1, 1844)	p. 207
"The Fugitive Slave Law" (March 7, 1854)	p. 230
"Woman" (September 20, 1855)	p. 244
"American Civilization" (January 1, 1862)	p. 257
"Thoreau" (1862)	p. 264
Selected Poems	p. 281
"Each and All" (1834/1839)	p. 283
"Concord Hymn" (1837)	p. 284
"Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing" (1846/1847)	p. 285
"Waldeinsamkeit" (1857/1858)	p. 288
"Boston Hymn" (1863)	p. 290
"Voluntaries" (1863)	p. 293
Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Selected Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850	p. 297
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)	p. 298
Selected Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850	p. 440
Works Cited	p. 497
For Further Reading	p. 501
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