Suggested Readings

Allen, Joseph H. Our Liberal Movement in Theology. 1892; New York: Arno Press, 1972.

Buell, Lawrence. Emerson. Boston: Belknap/Harvard, 2003.

Buell, Lawrence. Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1973.

Cooke, George W. Unitarianism in America: A History of its Origin and Development. Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1902.

Crick, Nathan. The Keys of Power: The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2017.

Emerson, Ralph W. “The Lord’s Supper,” in The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brooks Atkinson, ed. New York: Modern Library, 2000, 99-112.

Emerson, Ralph W. The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vols 1-4, Albert J. von Frank, Teresa Toulouse, Andrew Delbanco, Ronald A. Bosco, and Wesley T. Mott, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1989.

Emerson, Ralph W. The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vols 1-6. Ralph L. Rusk, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.

Field, Peter S. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism: A History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.

Howe, Daniel W. The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805-1861. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Hutchison, William R. The Transcendentalist Ministers: Church Reform in the New England Renaissance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959.

Kateb, George. Emerson and Self-Reliance. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Marcus, James. Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024.

Miller, Eric C. “Theodore Parker, ‘The Transient and Permanent in Christianity,’ (19 May 1841).” Voices of Democracy 19 (2024): 1-12.

Miller, Eric C. “William Ellery Channing, ‘Unitarian Christianity,’ Baltimore, MD (5 May 1819).” Voices of Democracy 18 (2023): 10-23.

Miller, Perry. The Transcendentalists: An Anthology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.

Mott, Wesley T. “The Strains of Eloquence”: Emerson and His Sermons. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.

Packer, Barbara. The Transcendentalists. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007.

Richardson, Robert D.  Emerson: The Mind of Fire, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Robinson, David. Apostle of Culture: Emerson as Preacher and Lecturer. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.

Rose, Anne C. Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830-1850. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

Sacks, Kenneth. Understanding Emerson: “The American Scholar” and his Struggle for Self-Reliance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Scott, Donald M. From Office to Profession: The New England Ministry, 1750-1850. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978.

Wright, Conrad. The Unitarian Controversy: Essays on American Unitarian History. Boston: Skinner House, 1994.

Wright, Conrad. Three Prophets of Liberalism: Channing, Emerson, Parker. Boston: Skinner House, 1986.

Wright, Conrad. The Beginnings of American Unitarianism. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1976.

Audio-Visual Materials

American Experience. “God in America.” PBS. DVD. 2010. http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/view.

Maglaris, Michael, dir. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give All to Love. 2023; 217 Films, https://two17films.com/free-streaming/ralph-waldo-emerson-give-all-to-love.

Online Resources

Emerson, Ralph W. An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 July, 1838. (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1838). Available online at: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035163545&seq=3.

Emerson Central, https://emersoncentral.com.

The Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ralph-waldo-emerson.

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, https://emersonsociety.org.