A biannual publication of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, The Dial: A Journal of the Emerson Society, publishes essays, reviews, review essays, and creative works on Emerson, Transcendentalism, and the cultures of nineteenth-century America and beyond that shaped and were shaped by both. As Henry David Thoreau remarked of the original publication (1840-44), The Dial serves as a “circular” connecting leading and newer scholars while engaging the various, often competing exchanges and explorations that energize the wider fields of American literary, philosophical, and cultural studies.
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