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Transcendentalism
Biography:
Bedell, Madelon. The Alcotts: Biography of a Family. NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980.
Bronson Alcott, -. "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1837' (Part Two)." Studies in the
American Renaissance (1982): 53-167 American Literature 60.1 (Mar 1988): 17-25.
Shorter Histories:
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks. Transcendentalism in New England: A History.
Koster, Donald Nelson. Transcendentalism in America.
Simon, Myron, ed. Transcendentalism and its Legacy.
Short Story Collections:
Child, Lydia Maria. "Slavery's Pleasant Homes" (short story); Fact and Fiction (stories),
1846; The Freedmen's Book (collection of stories, sketches, and poems by Black writers),
1865
Poetry:
Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition. 3 vols. Cambridge:
Harvard UP, 1998. PS1541 .A1; - - -. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999..
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass, New York, 1855.
Novels:
Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord And Merrimac Rivers, 1849 ; Walden, or
Life in the Woods, 1854.
Lectures:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Introductory Lecture on the Times," "The Conservative," "The
Transcendentalist," "The American Scholar," Literary Ethics.

Peabody, Elizabeth. Record of Mr. Alcott's School, 3rd Edition, revise 1874.
(http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=AGE1125) Read 15 pages.

Essays:
Anderson, Charles R. Thoreau's Vision: The Major Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1973. PS3042 A5, "Resistance to Civil Government" also known as "Civil
Disobedience" (1849), Glick, Wendell, ed. Reform Papers. Princeton: Princeton UP,
1973. PS3042 .G64
Ceplair, Larry. ed. The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimke: Selected Writings,
1835 1839. NY: Columbia UP, 1991.
Child, Lydia Maria. An appeal in favor of Americans called Africans. NY: Arno Press,
1968. E449 C532, Appeal for the Indians, 1868; The Frugal Housewife, 1828; The
Mother's Book, 1831.

Deese, Helen R. "Alcott's Conversations on the Transcendentalists: The Record of
Caroline Dall." [Bronson Alcott]

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays: First Series ("History," Self-Reliance,"
"Compensation," "Spiritual Laws," "Love," "Friendship," "Prudence," "Heroism," "The
Over-Soul," "Circles." 1841; Essays: Second Series, "The Poet," "Experience,"
"Character," "Manners," "Gifts," "Nature," "Politics," "Nominalist and Realist," 1844.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Declaration of Sentiments, 1842. Signed at frist American
women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY.
(http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/seneca.htm)
Turner, Arlin. "Elizabeth Peabody Reviews Twice Told Tales." Nathaniel Hawthorne
Journal (1974): 75-84.
Whitman, Walt. Preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. New York, 1855.
Letters:
Child, Lydia Maria. Letters from New York (while editor of The National Anti-Slavery
Standard, a Garrisonian newspaper
Hart, Ellen L. and Martha N. Smith. eds. Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate
Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. Paris P, 1998. ISBN: 0963818368, Johnson,
Thomas H., - - -. ed. Selected Letters. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1971. PS 1541.Z5 A32
Merrill, Walter M., ed. The letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Cambridge: Harvard UP,
1971- . E449 .G245 v.1-2.

The following web sites have been invaluable in constructing this list:
http://www.bartleby.com/226/index.html and http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html . My
enduring gratitude to Paul Rueben at Cal State University, Stanislaus and the publishers of The Cambridge
History of English and American Literature.