Literary Analysis

General Literary Analysis

An Overview of American Transcendentalism. Martin Bickman, University of Colorado.
Literary Criticism in the Dial. Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University.
"Emerson and Thoreau as Eco-Transcendentalists." Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Review of R. Todd Felton's A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England. Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University.
A Romantic Natural History. Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College.

On Ralph Waldo Emerson

An Introduction to Nature. Lewis Leary, from Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Interpretive Essay.
"Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord," William James, 1903.
"Transcendence: The Yin and Yang of Emerson and Goethe." Sheri Gietzen, University of Washington.
Emerson's Nature: A River Reading. Ann Woodlief, VCU.
"Introduction: Poetry Realized in Nature." Eric Wilson, Emerson's Sublime Science.
Review of Emerson's Essays [Second Series], 1844.
Emerson's Philosophy of Education. Sanderson Beck.
On Emerson's Poetry. Ellen Moore, VCU.
"The Aeolian Harp: Beauty and Unity in the Poetry and Prose of Ralph Waldo Emerson." Cynthia A. Cavanaugh, Rocky Mountain Review.

Emerson: Book Reviews

Brown, Amy Belding. Mr. Emerson's Wife. Reviewed by Ann Woodlief.
Leary, Lewis. Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Interpretive Essay. Reviewed by Ann Woodlief, Southern Humanities Review.
McMillin, T. S. Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature of Reading.. Reviewed by Ann Woodlief.
Myerson, Joel, ed. A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Reviewed by C. A. Cavanaugh, Rocky Mountain Review.
Porte, Joel and Saundra Morris. The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Studies Today Online.
Richardson, Robert Jr. Emerson: The Mind on Fire

On Henry David Thoreau

Excursions by Henry David Thoreau. Reviewed by Ann Woodlief.
"Man Thinking About Nature: The Evolution of the Poet's Form and Function in the Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1852", 2006 Honors thesis by S. H. Bagley.
Introduction to Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript by Bradley Dean.
Thoreau and the Tradition of the Active Mind. Martin Bickman, University of Colorado.
Thoreau and Self-Realization by Richard Amero
The Influence of Theories of Rhetoric on Thoreau by Ann Woodlief (Thoreau Journal Quarterly, 1975).
Thoreau and Tao by David Ch'en, 1972.
CONTACT! CONTACT! Up Katahdin with Thoreau. David Rothenberg.
Castles Made of Sand: Thoreau on the Seashore. Leila Hatch, Yale.
Civil and Uncivil Disobedience ,Pierre Lemieux.
A Treatise on Life: The Critics and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Margaret Taliaferro, VCU, 1984.
Excerpts from Thoreau's Redemptive Imagination on "Walking" by Frederick Garber.
"Taking the Indian Cure: Thoreau, Indian Medicine, and the Performance of American Culture," New England Quarterly (March 2006) by Joshua Bellin, Professor of English, La Roche College (Adobe file).
"Taking the Indian Cure: Thoreau, Indian Medicine, and the Performance of American Culture," Concord Saunterer (2008), by Joshua Bellin, Professor English, La Roche College (Adobe file).
Thoreau and the Indian in "The Allegash and East Branch" (The Maine Woods). Lee Gentry, VCU, 1999.
Thoreau and Science by Robert Richardson.
The "Domestic Air" of Wilderness: Henry Thoreau and Joe Polis in the Maine Woods by Tom Lynch [Weber Studies, 1997]

Thoreau: Book Reviews

Michael West's Transcendental Wordplay. Reviewed by Randall Conrad, Thoreau Society Bulletin (Spring 2000).
Alan Hodder's Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness. Reviewed by Randall Conrad, Thoreau Society Bulletin (Fall 2002).
Carl Bode's The Portable Thoreau. Reviewed by Meg Brulatour, VCU.
A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau. William E. Cain, editor. Reviewed by Randall Conrad, Thoreau Society Bulletin (Summer 2001).
On Robert D. Richardson, Jr.'s Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. Kenneth Eble, Weber Studies.
On Thoreau's Vision of Insects & the Origins of American Entomology by David Spooner.

On Amos Bronson Alcott

Bronson Alcott's Experiment in Practical Transcendentalism. John Crouch, Brown University, 1991.

On Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller: Performing Civic Equality .Rebecca Rix, Reed College, 1998.

On Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Transcendentalist Experience of Beauty in "The Artist of the Beautiful", Mariana Mussetta and Andrea Vartalitis, Universidad Nacional de Villa Mara, Argentina (2010)