Annual Bibliographies

These bibliographies are based upon the lists published annually in Emerson Society Papers, supplemented by additional information. They begin with the year’s publications for 1991, picking up after the period covered by Robert E. Burkholder and Joel Myerson in Emerson: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985) and Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1980-1991 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994). The lists in Emerson Society Papers were prepared by David M. Robinson (1992-present), and served as the basis for Robinson’s chapters on “Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Transcendentalism” in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (Durham: Duke University Press, 1965- ). Because of space limitations, both of these bibliographies were necessarily selective, and additional information has been added here, marked with an astrerisk (*) in the annotation to assist those who have already used the ESP or ALS bibliographies to easily identify material not in the other sources. For an aggregate of the bibliographies, with selected additions dating back to 1832, click here.

Annual Bibliography 2017

An Emerson Bibliography, 2017 Todd H. Richardson, University of Texas of the Permian Basin   Readers should also consult the Thoreau bibliography published quarterly in

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Annual Bibliography, 2020

An Emerson Bibliography, 2020 James S. Finley, Texas A&M University – San Antonio Assif, Adeena. “‘The Dialogue of the Mind with Itself’: Freud, Cavell, and Company.”

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Annual Bibliography 2019

An Emerson Bibliography, 2019 Todd H. Richardson, University of Texas Permian Basin Readers should also consult the Thoreau bibliography published quarterly in the Thoreau Society

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Annual Bibliography 2018

An Emerson Bibliography, 2018 Todd H. Richardson, University of Texas Permian Basin Readers should also consult the Thoreau bibliography published quarterly in the Thoreau Society

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Annual Bibliography 2016

An Emerson Bibliography, 2016 Todd H. Richardson, University of Texas of the Permian Basin Readers should also consult the Thoreau bibliography published quarterly in the

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Annual Bibliography 2015

Baker, Jennifer J. “Emerson, Embryology, and Culture.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 3.1: 15-39. [Baker grounds Emerson’s theories of genius and cultural advancement in

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Annual Bibliography 2014

Argersinger, Jana L. and Phyllis Cole, eds. Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism.Athens: U of Georgia P. [Ralph Waldo Emerson appears throughout this remarkable collection

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Annual Bibliography 2013

Atwood, Sara. “Black Devil and Gentle Cloud: Ruskin and Emerson at Odds” Nineteenth-Century Prose. 40.2: 129–62. Bauer, Sylvie. “Percival Everett’s Grand Canyon Inc.: Self-Reliance Revisited”

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Annual Bibliography 1991

Bauer, Melanie L. “Emerson’s Acquaintance With Abijah Metcalf Ide, Jr.: Six Unpublished Emerson Letters”. RALS 17 (1991): 258-62. Print. Bosco, Ronald A. The Complete Sermons

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Annual Bibliography 1991

Bauer, Melanie L. “Emerson’s Acquaintance With Abijah Metcalf Ide, Jr.: Six Unpublished Emerson Letters”. RALS 17 (1991): 258-62. Print. Bosco, Ronald A. The Complete Sermons

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Annual Bibliography 1992

Addison, Elizabeth. “Compensation And The Price Of Purity: An Old Quaker Impresses The Young Emerson”. SAR 1992 (1992): 107-120. Print. Al-Dámi, Muhammed. “Arabian Perfumes For

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Annual Bibliography 1992

Addison, Elizabeth. “Compensation And The Price Of Purity: An Old Quaker Impresses The Young Emerson”. SAR 1992 (1992): 107-120. Print. Al-Dámi, Muhammed. “Arabian Perfumes For

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Annual Bibliography 1993

Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Rites Of Assent: Transformations In The Symbolic Construction Of America. Routledge, 1993. Print. Bosco, Ronald A. The Topical Notebooks Of Ralph Waldo

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Annual Bibliography 1993

Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Rites Of Assent: Transformations In The Symbolic Construction Of America. Routledge, 1993. Print. Bosco, Ronald A. The Topical Notebooks Of Ralph Waldo

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Annual Bibliography 1994

Bean, Judith Mattson. “Texts From Conversation: Margaret Fuller’S Influence On Emerson”. SAR (1994): 227-44. Print. Berkson, Dorothy. “Born And Bred In Diferent Nations’: Margaret Fuller

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Annual Bibliography 1994

Bean, Judith Mattson. “Texts From Conversation: Margaret Fuller’S Influence On Emerson”. SAR (1994): 227-44. Print. Berkson, Dorothy. “Born And Bred In Diferent Nations’: Margaret Fuller

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Annual Bibliography 1995

Albrecht, James M. “‘Living Property’: Emerson’s Ethics”. ESQ 41 (1995): 177-217. Print. Birch, Thomas D. “Toward A Better Economic Order: The Economic Thought Of Ralph

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Annual Bibliography 1996

Addison, Elizabeth. “Obedience And Algebra: From Listening To Language In Emerson’S Response To Mary Rotch”. ESQ 42 (1996): 153-94. Print. Albrecht, James M. “Emerson On

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Annual Bibliography 1998

Beran, Michael Knox. The Last Patrician: Bobby Kennedy And The End Of American Aristocracy. St. Martin’s Press, 1998. Print. Bond, Adrian. “Emerson’S ‘Transparent Eye-Ball’ And

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Annual Bibliography 1999

Adisasmito-Smith, Steven. “The Self In Translation: British Orientalists, American Transcendentalists, And Sanskrit Scriptures In English”. YCGL 47 (1999): 167-77. Print. Ycgl . Albrecht, James M.

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Annual Bibliography 2000

Banta, Melissa. A Curious & Ingenious Art: Reflections On Daguerreotypes At Harvard. University of Iowa Press, 2000. Print. Belasco, Susan. “Harriet Martineau’S Black Hero And

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Annual Bibliography 2001

Acharya, Shanta. The Influence Of Indian Thought On Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edwin Mellen, 2001. Print. Boudreau, Kristin. “A Connection More Charming Than In Life: The

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Annual Bibliography 2002

Armstrong, Paul B. “The American Scholar At Brown”. Liberal Educ 88 iv (2002): 42-47. Print. Liberal Educ 88. Bégout, Bruce. “Le Transcendant Et Le Transcendental:

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Annual Bibliography 2003

A., Bosco Ronald. “‘Good Society Is Such An Optical Illusion’: Ralph Waldo Emerson And His Correspondents”. Manuscripts 55 (2003): 117-34. Print. Manuscripts . Albrecht, James

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Annual Bibliography 2004

Accardo, Annalucia. “Poets With ‘Fine Ears,’ Or The ‘Responsibility’ Of The Artist: R. W. Emerson, E. Dickinson, And G. Paley”. Emerson at 200 (2004): 161-70.

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Annual Bibliography 2005

Bosco, Ronald A, and Joel Myerson. The Selected Lectures Of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2 Vol. University of Georgia Press, 2005. Print. Boyden, Michael. “The Institutional

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Annual Bibliography 2006

Allen, Thomas M. “Frank Bidart’S Emersonian Redemption”. Raritan 25 (2006): 95-114. Print. Raritan . Atchley, Heath J. “The Death Of Emerson: Writing, Loss, And Divine

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Annual Bibliography 2007

Albanese, Catherine. A Republic Of Mind And Spirit: A Cultural History Of American Metaphysical Religion. Yale University Press, 2007. Print. Alcott, Bronson A. Notes Of

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Annual Bibliography 2008

Alfonso, Ricardo Miguel. “The Influence Of Anxiety, Or The Postmodernity Of Emerson”. New Literatures Of Old: Dialogues Of Tradition And Innovation In Anglophone Literature. Dídac

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