Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Conrad Edick Wright
  • Transcendentalism and the Historians
  • "A Little Beyond": The Problem of the Transcendentalist Movement in American History / Charles Capper
  • Transcendentalism and the New England Religious Tradition
  • "A Religious Demonstration": The Theological Emergence of New England Transcendentalism / David M. Robinson
  • Theodore Parker and the 28th Congregational Society: The Reform Church and the Spirituality of Reformers in Boston, 1845-1859 / Dean Grodzins
  • Transcendentalism and the Cosmopolitan Discourse
  • Schleiermacher and the Transcendentalists / Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
  • Emerson and the Terrible Tabulations of the French / Barbara Packer
  • English Nature, New York Nature, and Walden's New England Nature / Nina Baym
  • Concord Orientalism, Thoreauvian Autobiography, and the Artist of Kouroo / Alan D. Hodder
  • Transcendentalism and Society
  • Transcendentalism and the Spirit of Capitalism / John Patrick Diggins
  • The Celestial Village: Transcendentalism and Tourism in Concord / Robert A. Gross
  • "A Chaos-Deep Soil": Emerson, Thoreau, and Popular Literature / David S. Reynolds
  • Transcendentalism in Print: Production, Dissemination, and Common Reception / Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray
  • Transcendentalism and American Reform
  • Mrs. Brackett's Verdict: Magic and Means in Transcendental Antislavery Work / Albert J. von Frank
  • Woman Questions: Emerson, Fuller, and New England Reform / Phyllis Cole.