Transcendental Theory and Practice, An American Romanticism

DALA: Digital American Literature Anthology
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Author Biographies

Ralph Waldo Emerson [American Passages][Heath Anthology]

Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau Society] [Heath Anthology]

Margaret Fuller [American Passages]

Unit Background, Secondary Sources

Perspectives in American Literature, Chapter 4: American Transcendentalism: A Brief Introduction by Paul P. Reuben

American Transcendentalism by Donna Campbell

Concord Massachusetts 1810 - 1890 [Chronology] by Donna Campbell

Margaret Fuller, Woodlief's Transcendentalism Web

Study Questions for Emerson's "Self Reliance" by Anne Woodlief

Primary Sources

The Web of American Transcendentalism by Anne Woodlief