Emerson and Thoreau · A Batch from The New England Quarterly (MIT Press Batches)

“Emerson and Thoreau have been with us for about two centuries now, and they are not going away any time soon,” writes Robert D. Richardson in his introduction to Emerson and Thoreau: A Batch from The New England Quarterly. Bringing together articles spanning almost 50 years of The New England Quarterly ( NEQ ), this Batch examines the intertwined careers of two of America’s most prominent authors. The NEQ authors explore such topics as transcendental vacations and friendship, nature-based nationalism, emancipation, and religion. Dig in.

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Contents:

Performing Loss, Elegy, and Transcendental Friendship

William Rossi

Emerson, Thoreau, and the Double Consciousness

Joel Porte

Transcendental Vacations: Thoreau and Emerson in the Wilderness

William W. Stowe

Nationalism and the Nature of Thoreau’s “Walking”

Andrew Menard

“Sympathy’s Electric Chain” and the American Democracy: Emerson’s First Vocational Crisis

Mary K. Cayton

Militant Abolitionism: Douglass, Emerson, and the Rise of the Anti-Slave

Len Gougeon

“As You Are Brothers of Mine”: Thoreau and the Irish

Laura Dassow Walls

Prophet among Rebels: Henry David Thoreau and the Creation of a Transcendentalist Bible

Lydia Willsky

Emerson and the Fortunes of Godless Religion

Robert Milder