Emerson Society

Essay Collections

Bloom, Harold, ed., Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Chelsea House, 1985.

Bode, Carl, ed., Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Profile. New York: Hill and Wang, 1969.

Bosco, Ronald A., and Joel Myerson, eds., Emerson Bicentennial Essays. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006.

Bosco, Ronald A., and Joel Myerson, eds., Emerson in His Own Time. University of Iowa Press, 2003.

Brunet, François, and Anne Wicke, eds., L’œuvre in Prose de Ralph Waldo Emerson. Paris: Armand Colín, 2003.

Buell, Lawrence, ed., Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1993.

Burkholder, Robert E., and Joel Myerson, eds., Critical Essays on Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.

Cady, Edwin, and Louis J. Budd, eds., On Emerson: The Best from American Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.

Carlson, Eric W., and J. Lasley Dameron, eds., Emerson’s Relevance Today: A Symposium. Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1971.

Donadio, Stephen, et al., eds., Emerson and His Legacy: Essays in Honor of Quentin Anderson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.

Garvey, T. Gregory, ed., The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform. University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Jaworski, Philippe, and François Brunet, eds., Ralph Waldo Emerson Dan Ses Textes: Rhétorique et Philosophie.

Konvitz, Milton R., ed., The Recognition of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972.

Konvitz, Milton R., and Stephen E. Whicher, eds., Emerson: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

Levin, David, ed., Emerson: Prophecy, Metamorphosis, and Influence. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.

Lothstein, Arthur S., and Michael Brodrick, eds. New Morning: Emerson in the Twenty-First  Century. SUNY Press, 2008.

Mariani, Giorgio, et al., eds., Emerson at 200: Proceedings of the International Bicentennial Conference. Rome: Aracne, 2004.

Mott, Wesley T., and Robert E. Burkholder, eds., Emersonian Circles: Essays in Honor of Joel Myerson (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1997).

Myerson, Joel, ed. Emerson Centenary Essays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.

Myerson, Joel, ed. A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Neufeldt, Leonard Nick, ed., Ralph Waldo Emerson: New Appraisals. Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1973.

Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert, and Laura Dassow Walls, eds., “Ralph Waldo Emerson Bicentenary,” Nineteenth-Century Prose, 30, nos. 1-2 (Spring-/Fall 2003): 1-500.

Porte, Joel, ed., Emerson: Prospect and Retrospect. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Porte, Joel, and Saundra Morris, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Sanborn, F. B., ed., The Genius and Character of Emerson: Lectures at the Concord School of Philosophy. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1885.

Sealts, Merton M., Jr., and Alfred R. Ferguson, eds., Emerson’s “Nature”–Origin, Growth, Meaning. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969; 2d enl. ed., Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979.

Social Circle of Concord, The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1903.

Tharaud, Barry, ed. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bicentenary Appraisals. Germany: Wissenschaftlicher  Verlag Trier, 2006. [Republication of the Emerson Bicentennial volume of Nineteenth-Century  Prose]